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

Lucretius

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
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
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
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
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
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
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
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
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
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
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
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe

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

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