So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSConstant dripping hollows out a stone.
More Lucretius Quotes
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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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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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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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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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