Lucretius
Lucretius
Titus Lucretius Caruswas a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem De rerum natura about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, and which is usually translated into English as On the Nature of Things...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
earth sprung
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
moon men sky
If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms into unions - exactly as united now, Why then confess you must That other worlds exist in other regions of the sky, And different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts.
death generations may
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
strength mind decay
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
lasts firsts senses
These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.
stars light atheism
Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.