Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create 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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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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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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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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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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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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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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