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How many evils have flowed from religion.

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Evil

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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Lucretius

Philosophy, Elements, Return

"On the Nature of Things: De Rerum Natura: Book I" by Lucretius (250), Jule 1, 1989.

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These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.

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Lasts, Firsts, Senses

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First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.

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Eye, Men, Animal

Titus Lucretius Carus (1851). “On the Nature of Things”, p.103

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Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live;
Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others.
[Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum;
Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus
Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]

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Death, Sleep, Forgotten

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Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness!

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Science, Past, Infinite Time

Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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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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Men, Soul, Shade

Titus Lucretius Carus (1898). “Lucretius On the Nature of Things”, p.8

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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

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Fall, Stones, Lasts

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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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Lying, Blood, Mind

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But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being contented; one is never short of a little But men want always to be powerful and famous So that their fortune rests on a solid foundation And they can spend a placid life in opulence. There isn't a hope of it; to attain great honours You have to struggle along a dangerous way And even when you reach the top there is envy Which can strike you down like lightning into Tartarus. For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level.

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Powerful, Struggle, Men

Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.167, Psychology Press

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For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.

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Children, Dark, Law

"On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius, Book II, lines 55 - 61 (tr. Rouse),

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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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Believe, Simple, Doubt

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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.

Lucretius

Tools, Elements, Divine

Lucretius (2012). “On the Nature of Things”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others

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Food, Men, Poison

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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

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Littles, Able, Happy Hour

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Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.

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Children, Men, Names

Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.164, Psychology Press

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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

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Running, Views, Sea

"De Rerum Natura". II. 1,

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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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Centaurs, Body, Speak

Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.160, Psychology Press

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Continual dropping wears away a stone.

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Stones, Dropping

"On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius, (Book I, line 313),

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Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

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Space, Generations, Literature

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A property is that which not at all
Can be disjoined and severed from a thing
Without a fatal dissolution: such,
Weight to the rocks, heat to the fire, and flow
To the wide waters, touch to corporal things,
Intangibility to the viewless void.

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Fire, Rocks, Water

Lucretius (2013). “The Way Things Are”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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Those vestiges of natures left behind
Which reason cannot quite expel from us
Are still so slight that naught prevents a man
From living a life even worthy of the gods.

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Men, Reason, Worthy

Lucretius (2012). “On the Nature of Things”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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So much wrong could religion induce.

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Atheism, Positive Atheism

De Rerum Natura bk. 1, l. 101

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And many kinds of creatures must have died,
Unable to plant out new sprouts of life.
For whatever you see that lives and breathes and thrives
Has been, from the very beginning, guarded, saved
By it's trickery for its swiftness or brute strength.
And many have been entrusted to our care,
Commended by their usefulness to us.
For instance, strength supports a savage lion;
Foxes rely on their cunning; deer their flight.

Lucretius

Life, Death, Science

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(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied by the heat, and releases into the air all the heat-particles it happens to have. So, the more the earth is drained of heat, the colder becomes the moisture that is concealed in the ground. On the other hand, when all the earth condenses and contracts and congeals with the cold, then, of course, as it contracts, it squeezes out into the wells whatever heat it holds.

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Summer, Air, Hands

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Born: 99 BC
Died: 55 BC
Occupation: Poet
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