True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUSTruths kindle light for truths.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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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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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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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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It’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.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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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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