236 Quotes by Lucretius

The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.

One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison.

Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas.

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.