What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each… — 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
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
...Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever… — 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
