We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUSNature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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