How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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