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
fall age world
Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.
mother men aeneas
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas
fall lasts stones
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
So much wrong could religion induce.
angels embracing fly
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.