Home

Quotes by Lucretius

  • What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
  • Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
  • Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
  • What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
  • Nothing can be created from nothing.