No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through — 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
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
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
“Matter's basic elements are solid, Completely so, and that they fly through time Invincible, indestructible for ever.” — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's… — 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
The sum of things there is no power can change, For naught exists outside, to which can flee Out of the world… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky, And the primordial germs of things unfold, Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies… — 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
“The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread out. For… — 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
