Continual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUSThose things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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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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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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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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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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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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