It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
More Lucretius Quotes
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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