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

Lucretius

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
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
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
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
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
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur

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

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