No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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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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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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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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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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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