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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

Lucretius

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
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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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
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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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
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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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