All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
LUCRETIUSLucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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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 body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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