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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

Lucretius

Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
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
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur

Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

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