So much wrong could religion induce.
LUCRETIUSThings stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
More Lucretius Quotes
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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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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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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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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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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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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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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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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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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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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