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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Lucretius

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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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
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
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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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
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
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

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

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