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.
LUCRETIUSIt’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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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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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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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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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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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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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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