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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.

Lucretius

Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
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
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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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
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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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
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
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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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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Anand Thakur
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur

These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.

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