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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

Lucretius

Only religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUS

Evil Leadership Religion
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
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.
LUCRETIUS

Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUS

Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUS

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.
LUCRETIUS

Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUS

Drops Fall Power Stone
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUS

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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