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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
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
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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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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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
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
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
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
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total

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