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Lucretius

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
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
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
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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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
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe

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