Lucretius Quotes

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

There can be no centre in infinity.

How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.