We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUSIf one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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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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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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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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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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