So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSWhen 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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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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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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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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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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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 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.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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