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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Lucretius

For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
There can be no centre in infinity.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

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