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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

Lucretius

All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
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
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

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