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Fear is the mother of all gods.

Lucretius

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
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
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
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
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
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
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble

Fear is the mother of all gods.

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