True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUSFor 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.
LUCRETIUSSo potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSHow many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUSWe, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUSNot they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSOne Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LUCRETIUSContinual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUSSome species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSFear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
LUCRETIUSFrom the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
LUCRETIUSMen are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
LUCRETIUSOne thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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