Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUSSuch are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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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.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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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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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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