Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUSThe old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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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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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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