Quotes by Lucretius

“Nothing can be created out of nothing”

“From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.”

“It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.”

“Love is a product of habit”

“Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfectio”

“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by often falling”

“So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.”

“How many evils have flowed from religion”

“Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods”

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.

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

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.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

“So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.”

“Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of anothers death.”