How many evils have flowed from religion.
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present.
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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 and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison.
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas.
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.