236 Quotes by Lucretius

Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish, grief and fear. What more natural than that it should likewise have a share in death?

He grasped then that the vessel caused the vice --- That even the best of blessings would be spoiled By the vice of the soul that takes them in

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

There can be no centrein infinity.

Words pass through walls and slip past lock and key,and numbing cold seeps to our very bones.

For whatever changes and leaves its natural boundsis instant death of that which was before.

All things keep on in everlasting motion,Out of the infinite come the particles,Speeding above, below, in endless dance.

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.