Lucretius Quotes
"In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers."
- Lucretius
(Related: Flowers, Wit)
"And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all."
- Lucretius
(Related: Life)
"Constant dripping hollows out a stone."
- Lucretius
"The sum of all sums is eternity."
- Lucretius
(Related: Eternity)
"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."
- Lucretius
(Related: Angels)
"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others."
- Lucretius
(Related: Food, Man, Poison)
"From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers."
- Lucretius
(Related: Heart, Bitterness, Delight, Flowers)
"Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows."
- Lucretius
(Related: Mind)
"Victory puts us on a level with heaven."
- Lucretius
(Related: Victory, Heaven)
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied."
- Lucretius
(Related: Wealth, Content, Mind, Want)
"The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone."
- Lucretius
(Related: Water)
"Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles."
- Lucretius
(Related: Land)
"Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion."
- Lucretius
(Related: Men, Religion, Wickedness)
"So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds."
- Lucretius
(Related: Religion, Deeds, Evil)
"Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril."
- Lucretius
"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."
- Lucretius
(Related: Joy, Man, Sea, Trouble)
"It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind."
- Lucretius
(Related: Soul, Wealth, Mind)
"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling."
- Lucretius
(Related: Rain, Violence)
"Life is one long struggle in the dark."
- Lucretius
(Related: Life, Struggle)
"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."
- Lucretius
(Related: Life, Being, Generations, Living, Nations, Space)