20 Quotations by Lucretius
- 1. By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
- 2. From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst t ...
- 3. In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
- 4. It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
- 5. Life isn't given to anyone, but just given on loan to everyone.
- 6. Love is a product of habit.
- 7. Nothing can be created from nothing.
- 8. Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another' ...
- 9. Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in ...
- 10. Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
- 11. The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
- 12. The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
- 13. The falling drops at last will wear the stone.
- 14. The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisf ...
- 15. Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad a ...
- 16. Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations ...
- 17. Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who ...
- 18. Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented m ...
- 19. What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
- 20. What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
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