Such crimes has superstition caused.
LUCRETIUSThose things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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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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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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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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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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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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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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