All things obey fixed laws.
LUCRETIUSHow many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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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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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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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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