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

Lucretius

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
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
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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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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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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

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

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