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How many evils have flowed from religion.

Lucretius

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Anand Thakur
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur

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