Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
Lucretius
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lucretius
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
Long
Birth
Mortals
Mind
Sweet
Discovered
Life
Death
Souls
Light
Thou
Mayst
Able
Rule
Verses
Soul
Minds
Sought
Live
Build
Toil
Come
Meet
Mortal
More quotes by Lucretius
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
Lucretius
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
Lucretius
So much wrong could religion induce.
Lucretius
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
Lucretius
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
Lucretius
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
Lucretius
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches for never is there any lack of a little.
Lucretius
Fear is the mother of all gods.
Lucretius
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
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
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
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
Lucretius
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
Lucretius
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
Lucretius
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.
Lucretius
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
Lucretius
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
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 imperfections.
Lucretius
