How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
LUCRETIUSThus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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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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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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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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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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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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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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