The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LUCRETIUSNature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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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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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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