All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
LUCRETIUSWhen bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
More Lucretius Quotes
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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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.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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