Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUSMother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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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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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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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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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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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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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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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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