... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
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
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“You see that stones are worn away by time, Rocks rot, and twoers topple, even the shrines And images of the gods… — 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
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar… — 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
But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body… — 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
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself. — 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
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
“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
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
Tempests, and bright lightnings, are to be sung; their nature is to be told, and from what cause they pursue their course;… — 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
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
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
