The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSMeantime, 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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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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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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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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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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