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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

Lucretius

Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Anand Thakur
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
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
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
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur

It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

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