Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUSToo often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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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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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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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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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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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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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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