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- All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
- No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By…
- Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and…
- The sum of all sums is eternity.
- Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
- For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears…
- All life is a struggle in the dark.
- I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward…
- Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they…
- Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed…
- Fear is the mother of all gods.
- And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds…
- (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…
- To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels…
- Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
- The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
- Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
- 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…
- Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
- And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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