[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Nature ever upbuilds one thing from other, suffering naught To come to birth but through some other's death — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“O even as here thou art, aslumber in death, So shalt thou slumber down the rest of time, Released from every harrying… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
For men know not what the nature of the soul is; whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.” — 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
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Whenever a thing changes and quits its proper limits, This change is at once the death of that which was before” — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Nor can those motions that bring death prevail Forever, nor eternally entomb The welfare of the world; nor, further, can Those motions… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
For it is unknown what is the real nature of the soul, whether it be born with the bodily frame or be… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, because they see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“...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 Image
... 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image