Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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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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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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