True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUSHow many evils have flowed from religion.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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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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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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