So much wrong could religion induce.
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?
More Lucretius Quotes
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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For 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.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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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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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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