Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUSNow come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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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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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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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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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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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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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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