So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSAll 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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All things obey fixed laws.
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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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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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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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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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