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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.

Lucretius

How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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
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
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
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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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
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
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
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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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
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple

I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.

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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.

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