Quote

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

Lucretius

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lucretius
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
Snares
Escape
Avoid
Easier
Love

More quotes by Lucretius

Image
So much wrong could religion induce.
Lucretius
Image
Our life must once have end in vain we fly From following Fate e'en now, e'en now, we die.
Lucretius
Image
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum Adde Heliconiadum comites quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]
Lucretius
Image
But centaurs never existed there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.
Lucretius
Image
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?
Lucretius
Image
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Lucretius
Image
For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will there be whereunto to appeal On things occult when seeking aught to prove By reasonings of mind.
Lucretius
Image
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life none the less will that everlasting death await you.
Lucretius
Image
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
Lucretius
Image
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
Lucretius
Image
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
Lucretius
Image
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
Lucretius
Image
Beauty and strength were, both of them, much esteemed Then wealth was discovered and soon after gold Which quickly became more honoured than strength or beauty. For men, however strong or beautiful, Generally follow the train of a richer man.
Lucretius
Image
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
Lucretius
Image
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
Lucretius
Image
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
Lucretius
Image
Time changes the nature of the whole world Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
Lucretius
Image
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
Lucretius
Image
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
Lucretius
Image
For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
Lucretius