The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSSweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
More Lucretius Quotes
-
-
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUS -
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUS -
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUS -
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUS -
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUS -
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
LUCRETIUS -
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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 -
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUS -
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
LUCRETIUS -
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUS -
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUS -
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUS -
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUS -
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUS






