So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSAll things obey fixed laws.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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There is so much wrong with the world.
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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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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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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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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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