Such crimes has superstition caused.
LUCRETIUSUnder what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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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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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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