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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

Lucretius

I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
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
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
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
Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Anand Thakur
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
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
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
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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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