Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas — Lucretius Copy Share Image
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn… — Lucretius Copy Share
First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is… — Lucretius Copy Share
See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more we vainly… — Lucretius Copy Share
“...nothing is more blissful than to occupy the heights effectively fortified by the teaching of the wise, tranquil sanctuaries from which you can look… — Lucretius Copy Share
... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts,… — Lucretius Copy Share
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the… — Lucretius Copy Share
Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many… — Lucretius Copy Share
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the… — Lucretius Copy Share
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them.… — Lucretius Copy Share
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into… — Lucretius Copy Share
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through — Lucretius Copy Share
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