Lucretius Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lucretius
Lucretius Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists
Of twain of things: of bodies and of void
In which they're set, and where they're moved around.
Of twain of things: of bodies and of void
In which they're set, and where they're moved around.
Thus, then, the All that is is limited
In no one region of its onward paths,
For then 'tmust have forever its beyond.
In no one region of its onward paths,
For then 'tmust have forever its beyond.
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
Confess then, naught from nothing can become,
Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow,
Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow,
Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions ... How many evils has religion caused?
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
[Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]
[Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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 of the plain.
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.