Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
LUCRETIUSFrom the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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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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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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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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