Lucretius Quotes (32 Quotes)

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

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

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

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

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

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

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

Nature ever upbuilds one thing from other, suffering naught To come to birth but through some other's death

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.

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

The sum of all sums is eternity.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the torch of life..

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

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

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power it is so full of imperfectio.

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another

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

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

Nothing can be created out of nothing. 'Nil posse creari De nilo.'

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Do you not see even stones yield to the power of time, lofty towers fall to decay, and the rocks molder away Temples and statues of the gods go to ruin, nor can the gods themselves prolong their date or get reprieve from fate

It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and mo

What is food to one is to another bitter poison.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.