Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUSSuch are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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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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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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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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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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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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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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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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