black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.

Lucretius

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUS

Earth Sink
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUS

Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUS

Beyond Forever Limitation Path
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUS

Forever Sum Total Universe
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
LUCRETIUS

Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
LUCRETIUS

God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
LUCRETIUS

Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUS

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

Anand Thakur
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Lucretius Quotes