Truths kindle light for truths.
LUCRETIUSSuch evil deeds could religion prompt.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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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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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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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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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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