236 Quotes by Lucretius

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

What is food to one is to another bitter poison.

When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail. [Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus, Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]