236 Quotes by Lucretius

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.

For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.

But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.

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.

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

Truths kindle light for truths.

In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.