236 Quotes by Lucretius

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

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

Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.