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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

Lucretius

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
LUCRETIUS

Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
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
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
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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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUS

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
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread

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