Quotes from Lucretius

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive what ills you are free from yourself is pleasant.

Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortals live dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

On a dark theme I trace verses full of light, touching all the muses' charm.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Nature works by means of bodies unseen.

A tree cannot grow in the sky, nor clouds be in the deep sea, nor fish live in the fields, nor can blood be in sticks nor sap in rocks.

[The people] were given over in troops to disease and death.

The ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of dripping water hollows the stone.

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

When immortal Death has taken mortal life.

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by soft falling.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

The falling drops at last will wear the stone.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

... 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.

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.