How many evils have flowed from religion.
LUCRETIUSForbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
More Lucretius Quotes
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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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