“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
My idea of feng shui is to have them arrange the pepperoni in a circle on my pizza — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share
“It is entirely possible to have an interest in alchemy, religious history and other assorted old-fashioned things while maintaining a perfectly materialistic stance.” — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share
“postremo pereunt imbres, ubi eos pater aether in gremium matris terrai praecipitavit; at nitidae surgunt fruges ramique virescunt arboribus, crescunt ipsae fetuque gravantur. hinc… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share
