How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!] — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum. (To such heights of evil are men driven by religion.)” — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused? — Lucretius Copy Share Image
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more we vainly… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“...nothing is more blissful than to occupy the heights effectively fortified by the teaching of the wise, tranquil sanctuaries from which you can look… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them.… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
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