First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of… — 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… — 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
And since the mind is of a man one part, Which in one fixed place remains, like ears, And eyes, and every… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. — 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
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is… — 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
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!] — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and… — 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
Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more… — 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
“The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the… — 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
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a… — 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
