All Lucretius Quotes
- I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward… Air
- How is it that the sky feeds the stars? Feeds
- Continual dropping wears away a stone. Continual
- Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods. Create
- Victory puts us on a level with heaven. Heaven
- Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas Aeneas
- Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they… All
- Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed… All
- We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear. Air
- The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop. Drop
- One Man's food is another Man's Poison Food
- The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it. Been
- Fear is the mother of all gods. All
- Only religion can lead to such evil. Evil
- Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring… Bear
- And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds… All
- It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another. Disturb
- (On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied… Air
- There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less. Admire
- What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth. Earth