Only religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUS
LUCRETIUS
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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.
LucretiusLucretius If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
LucretiusLucretius All things obey fixed laws.
LucretiusLucretius Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LucretiusLucretius When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
LucretiusLucretius From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
LucretiusLucretius Nothing can be created out of nothing.
LucretiusLucretius Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LucretiusLucretius One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LucretiusLucretius 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.
LucretiusLucretius Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
LucretiusLucretius Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
LucretiusLucretius Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LucretiusLucretius How many evils have flowed from religion.
LucretiusLucretius How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LucretiusLucretius It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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