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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Lucretius

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
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
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Anand Thakur
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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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
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
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
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
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
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
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

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