You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUSEpicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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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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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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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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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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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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