Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUSForbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
More Lucretius Quotes
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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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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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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