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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

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
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
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
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
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

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