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So much wrong could religion induce.

Lucretius

Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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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
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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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
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur

So much wrong could religion induce.

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