Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
LUCRETIUSDeprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
LUCRETIUSFrom the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUSThe water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSWere a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
LUCRETIUSNothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUSA falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUSHow is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSFor 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.
LUCRETIUSWe 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.
LUCRETIUSThe first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUSYet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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.
LUCRETIUSHow many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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