If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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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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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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