“In the same way now, since this reasoning seems generally too bitter for those men who have not tried it and the common crowd shrinks back in fear, I wanted to explain my argument to you in these verses, sweet-spoken… — 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, were made for us to look ahead with. Don't suppose our thigh bones fitted our shin bones and our shins our ankles so that we might take steps. Don't think that arms dangled from shoulders and… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share
“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
