So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. (Lucretius)
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. (Lucretius)
Victory puts us on a level with heaven. (Lucretius)
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. (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)
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. (Lucretius)
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, (Nature) does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry (Lucretius)
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine. (Lucretius)
Nature ever upbuilds one thing from other, suffering naught To come to birth but through some other's death (Lucretius)
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven. (Lucretius)
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. (Lucretius)