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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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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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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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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