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Lucretius

Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread

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