Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Anand Thakur
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSWhat can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUSWhat is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSWe plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUSWhat came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
LUCRETIUSGently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUSMother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUSConstant dripping hollows out a stone.
LUCRETIUSNow come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
LUCRETIUSToo often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUSViolence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSIt is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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