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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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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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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But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked About by body: there's in things a void- Which to have known will serve thee many a turn, Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt, Forever searching in the sum of all, And losing faith in these pronouncements mine.
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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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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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But centaurs never existed there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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