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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?

Lucretius

Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
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

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