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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began. — Lucretius

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it. — Lucretius

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles. — Lucretius

One Man's food is another Man's Poison — Lucretius

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin. — Lucretius

Victory puts us on a level with heaven. — Lucretius

To fear death, then, is foolish, since death is the final and complete annihilation of personal identity, the ultimate release from anxiety and pain. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. — Lucretius

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. — Lucretius

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. — Lucretius

Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion. — Lucretius

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others. — Lucretius

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely. — Lucretius

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly
From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die. — Lucretius

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. — Lucretius

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease. — Lucretius

No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through — Lucretius

All things keep on in everlasting motion,
Out of the infinite come the particles,
Speeding above, below, in endless dance. — Lucretius

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net. — Lucretius

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it. — Lucretius

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods. — Lucretius

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. — Lucretius

Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear? — Lucretius

The atoms in it must be used over and over again; thus the death of one thing becomes necessary for the birth of another. — Titus Lucretius Carus

The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye. — Lucretius

These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always. — Lucretius

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. — Lucretius

Lucretius wants to write the poem of matter, but he warns us from the start that the reality of matter is that it's made of invisible particles. He — Italo Calvino

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you. — Lucretius

In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life. — Lucretius

O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm. — Lucretius

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death. — Lucretius

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less. — Lucretius

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea. — Lucretius

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers. — Lucretius

If within wood hide flame and smoke and ash then wood consists of things unlike itself. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions ... How many evils has religion caused? — Lucretius

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. — Lucretius

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. — Lucretius

Falling drops will at last wear away stone. — Lucretius

Man's greatest wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for little is never lacking. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born. — Lucretius

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
[Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!] — Lucretius

Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace. — Lucretius

Truths kindle light for truths. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Lucretius and Cicero testify to the view that people dream about the things that concern them in waking life. — Sigmund Freud

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. — Lucretius

Such heinous acts could superstition prompt.12 — Titus Lucretius Carus

Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another. — Lucretius