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

Lucretius

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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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
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
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
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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur

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

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