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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Lucretius

No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
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
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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
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
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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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

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

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