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How many evils have flowed from religion.

Lucretius

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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
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
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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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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
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle

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