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Lucretius

Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
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
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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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
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
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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Earth Escape God People Scare
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink

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