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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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For men know not what the nature of the soul is whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary, it is infused into us at our birth, whether it perishes with us, dissolved by death, or whether it haunts the gloomy shades and vast pools of Orcus.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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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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One Man's food is another Man's Poison
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.
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For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will there be whereunto to appeal On things occult when seeking aught to prove By reasonings of mind.
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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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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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