Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LUCRETIUSViolence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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If 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?
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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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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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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