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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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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
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

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