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
aids born one-thing
[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.
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.
bears want humans
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
views light littles
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
born
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
forever path regions
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then 'tmust have forever its beyond.
space profound goes-on
But since I've taught that bodies of matter, made Completely solid, hither and thither fly Forevermore unconquered through all time, Now come, and whether to the sum of them There be a limit or be none, for thee Let us unfold; likewise what has been found To be the wide inane, or room, or space Wherein all things soever do go on, Let us examine if it finite be All and entire, or reach unmeasured round And downward an illimitable profound.
littles able hours
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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.
god religious accepting
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
adversity men doubt
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
flower heart delight
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
forever doubt body
But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked About by body: there's in things a void- Which to have known will serve thee many a turn, Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt, Forever searching in the sum of all, And losing faith in these pronouncements mine.