O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSO goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSEpicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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.
LUCRETIUSA falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSThe first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUSThe water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSIt 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.
LUCRETIUSAll things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSGently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUSThose things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSThere can be no centre in infinity.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LUCRETIUS