"So potent was religion in persuading to evil…" — Lucretius

"So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds."

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97 Quotes by Lucretius

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All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great…
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small…
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;… — Aristotle
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses… — Emilie Autumn
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He… — Teresa of Avila
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.… — Philip James Bailey
It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush… — Russell Baker
Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. — Abu Bakr
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who… — Saint Basil
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab… — Theodore Bikel
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead.… — Aeschylus
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds… — Allan Bloom
Honest people don't hide their deeds. — Emily Bronte
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the… — Phillips Brooks

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