For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
LUCRETIUSSo much wrong could religion induce.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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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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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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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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