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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

Lucretius

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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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
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
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion

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