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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

Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
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
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
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
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
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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