Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUSWe cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSFalling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUSTherefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUSIf 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?
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSNo matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
LUCRETIUSThere is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
LUCRETIUSThe drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUSEpicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
LUCRETIUSFor 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.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
LUCRETIUSIf men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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