Fear is the mother of all gods.
LUCRETIUSOne thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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