Only religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUSIf one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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