How many evils have flowed from religion.
LUCRETIUSWe notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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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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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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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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For 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.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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