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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.

Lucretius

How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
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
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
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
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
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
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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 plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.

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