“postremo pereunt imbres, ubi eos pater aether in gremium matris terrai praecipitavit; at nitidae surgunt fruges ramique virescunt arboribus, crescunt ipsae fetuque gravantur. hinc alitur porro nostrum genus atque ferarum, hinc laetas urbes pueris florere videmus frondiferasque novis avibus canere… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“Every person tries to flee himself—yet despite ourselves, we remain attached to this self which we hate.” — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“Mortal, what hast thou of such grave concern That thou indulgest in too sickly plaints? Why this bemoaning and beweeping death? For if thy… — Titus Lucretius Carus 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 to be… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“Another fallacy comes creeping in whose errors you should be meticulous in trying to avoid. Don't think our eyes, our bright and shining eyes,… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone ... Mind cannot arise alone without body, or apart from sinews and blood ... You… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“E tenebris tantis tam clarum extollere lumen qui primus potuisti inlustrans commoda vitae, te sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque tuis nunc ficta pedum… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“That is especially true, since our whole life is struggling in the dark. For just as children in the dead of night tremble and… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“Though you outlive as many generations as you will, Nevertheless, Eternal Death is waiting for you still. It is no shorter, that eternity that… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“In the same way now, since this reasoning seems generally too bitter for those men who have not tried it and the common crowd… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge.” — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“The whole of life but labours in the dark. For just as children tremble and fear all In the viewless dark, so even we… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“Nothing can dwindle to nothing, as Nature restores one thing from the stuff of another, nor does she allow a birth, without a corresponding… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
