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

Lucretius

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

Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUS

Evil Leadership Religion
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUS

Blind Man Mindset Understand
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUS

Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
LUCRETIUS

God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUS

Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

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

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