Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?
Nothing comes from nothing.
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
There can be no centre in infinity.
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
Truths kindle light for truths.
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
Beauty and strength were, both of them, much esteemed; Then wealth was discovered and soon after gold Which quickly became more honoured than strength or beauty. For men, however strong or beautiful, Generally follow the train of a richer man.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
One Man's food is another Man's Poison
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)
It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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