The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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The 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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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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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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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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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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