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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

Lucretius

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
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
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
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain

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