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Quotes of Lucretius
Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99 BC- ca. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem De Rerum Natura, On the Nature of Things.
- And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
- Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
- From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
- From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
- In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
- It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
- Life is one long struggle in the dark.
- 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.
- So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
- Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
- Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
- The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
- The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
- The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
- The sum of all sums is eternity.
- Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
- 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.
- Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
- We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
- What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.