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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

Lucretius

Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
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
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World

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