Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSSuch crimes has superstition caused.
More Lucretius Quotes
-
-
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
LUCRETIUS -
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LUCRETIUS -
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUS -
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
LUCRETIUS -
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUS -
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUS -
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LUCRETIUS -
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
LUCRETIUS -
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
LUCRETIUS -
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
LUCRETIUS -
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUS -
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
LUCRETIUS -
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
LUCRETIUS -
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUS -
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUS