Nothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUSWhat came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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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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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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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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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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