How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUSSuch are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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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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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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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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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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