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

Lucretius

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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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
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
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
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
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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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
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
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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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
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
LUCRETIUS

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
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
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
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

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