Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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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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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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