Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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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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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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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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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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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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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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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