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.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
More Lucretius Quotes
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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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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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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