How many evils have flowed from religion.
LUCRETIUSA falling drop at last will carve a stone.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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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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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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