How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
LUCRETIUSSo 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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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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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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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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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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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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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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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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