How many evils have flowed from religion.
LUCRETIUSAll life is a struggle in the dark.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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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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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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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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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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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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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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