Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world… — 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
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
But since I've taught that bodies of matter, made Completely solid, hither and thither fly Forevermore unconquered through all time, Now come,… — 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 men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To… — 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
Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being… — 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
