Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUSOne thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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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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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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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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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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