How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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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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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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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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