See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot… — 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
And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives… — 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
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
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another. — 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
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