So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSNature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
More Lucretius Quotes
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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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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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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