Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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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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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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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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