We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUSSo potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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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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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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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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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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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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