Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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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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There can be no centre in infinity.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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.
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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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