Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUSSuch crimes has superstition caused.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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