It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUSThe nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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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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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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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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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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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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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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