Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUSSo much wrong could religion induce.
More Lucretius Quotes
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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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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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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