black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.

Lucretius

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUS

Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
LUCRETIUS

Change Nature State Stay Time World
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUS

Death Life Oneself
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
LUCRETIUS

Crime Reason Superstition
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUS

Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
LUCRETIUS

Body Germ
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Lucretius Quotes