Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then 'tmust have forever its beyond.
Lucretius
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lucretius
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
Limited
Thus
Beyond
Path
Forever
Onward
Region
Paths
Regions
More quotes by Lucretius
For men know not what the nature of the soul is whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary, it is infused into us at our birth, whether it perishes with us, dissolved by death, or whether it haunts the gloomy shades and vast pools of Orcus.
Lucretius
It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
Lucretius
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
These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.
Lucretius
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Lucretius
It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
Lucretius
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
Lucretius
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.
Lucretius
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
Lucretius
And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.
Lucretius
But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked About by body: there's in things a void- Which to have known will serve thee many a turn, Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt, Forever searching in the sum of all, And losing faith in these pronouncements mine.
Lucretius
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
Lucretius
Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
Lucretius
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
Lucretius
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
Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
Lucretius
First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.
Lucretius
There can be no centre in infinity.
Lucretius
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
Lucretius
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
Lucretius
