Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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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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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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