Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUSViolence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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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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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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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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