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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Lucretius

So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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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
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
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
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

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