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Lucretius

How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
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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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
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
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

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