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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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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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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and movement, that they found at last the disposition they have, and that is how the universe was created.
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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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There can be no centre in infinity.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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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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Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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