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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
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
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
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
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
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
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur

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