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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Lucretius

How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
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
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
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

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