Only religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUSNothing from nothing ever yet was born.
More Lucretius Quotes
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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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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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Some 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.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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