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So much wrong could religion induce.

Lucretius

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
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
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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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

So much wrong could religion induce.

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