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
infinity centre
There can be no centre in infinity.
struggle dark life-is
All life is a struggle in the dark.
flower vex bitterness
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
pain spring needs
... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
perseverance fall water
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
return violence injury
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
poetry touching charm
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
greatest-wealth soul mind
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
latin deeds-done evil
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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.
space grandparent torches
In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
warfare encounters pleasure
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
flower rain heart
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.