There is so much wrong with the world.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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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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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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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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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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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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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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