Fear is the mother of all gods.
LUCRETIUSThe nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
More Lucretius Quotes
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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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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All things obey fixed laws.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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