Only religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUSFor fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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