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Lucretius

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
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
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
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
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
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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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur

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