I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
LUCRETIUSAll things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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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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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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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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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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