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

Lucretius

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUS

Explanation Myself Wind
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUS

Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
LUCRETIUS

Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUS

Drops Fall Power Stone
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUS

Action Evil Religion

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

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