We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUSSo much wrong could religion induce.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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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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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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