It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
LUCRETIUSThe nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
More Lucretius Quotes
-
-
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUS -
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
LUCRETIUS -
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
LUCRETIUS -
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUS -
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
LUCRETIUS -
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
LUCRETIUS -
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
LUCRETIUS -
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS -
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
LUCRETIUS -
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUS -
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUS -
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LUCRETIUS -
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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 -
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LUCRETIUS