Quotes from Lucretius

The sum of all sums is eternity.

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

One Man's food is another Man's Poison

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

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.

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.

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.

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

... 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.

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.

Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.

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

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)

So much wrong could religion induce.

If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.