Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them. Lucretius More Quotes by Lucretius More Quotes From Lucretius 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. Lucretius strongjammind Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them. Lucretius namesmenchildren 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 generationsspaceliterature One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death. Lucretius atheismragefear What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? Lucretius truthgivingknowledge Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them. Lucretius religiousmenmean The sum of all sums is eternity. Lucretius eternity All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder. Lucretius thunderwallworld Falling drops will at last wear away stone. Lucretius lastsstonesfall How many evils has religion caused! Lucretius evilreligion I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky, Lucretius lawnamessky Fear holds dominion over mortality Lucretius wisementhinking All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Lucretius voidbodyself Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Lucretius starsflowermother ...Thus it comes Lucretius earthbearsrain I own with reason: for, if men but knew Lucretius strongwould-bemen Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Lucretius gentlefieldsair When bodies spring apart, because the air Lucretius bodyairspring But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked Lucretius bodydoubtforever Our life must once have end; in vain we fly Lucretius vainfatelife
