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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

Lucretius

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
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
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
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
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

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