By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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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.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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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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Nothing comes from nothing.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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