Only religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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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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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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