One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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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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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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