Such crimes has superstition caused.
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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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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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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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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