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
rocks air atheism
Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring.
newborn wailing infant
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
nature extinction
There is no place in nature for extinction.
spring air body
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
fire rocks water
A property is that which not at all Can be disjoined and severed from a thing Without a fatal dissolution: such, Weight to the rocks, heat to the fire, and flow To the wide waters, touch to corporal things, Intangibility to the viewless void.
encouragement persistence looks
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through
greatest-wealth soul mind
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
blow mind dungeons
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
time names degrees
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
warfare encounters pleasure
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
summer spring rain
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.
discovery mind body
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
eternity
The sum of all sums is eternity.
cause-and-effect
Nothing comes from nothing.