Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions. Lucretius More Quotes by Lucretius More Quotes From Lucretius Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles. Lucretius strugglesweetwind I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward winds. First the Earth gave the shimmer of greenery And grasses to deck the hills; then over the meadows The flowering fields are bright with the color of springtime, And for all the trees that shoot into the air. Lucretius lightairwind For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers. Lucretius flowerearthsweet Some species 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 grandpagrandmaspace Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. Lucretius encountersliteraturewar Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. Lucretius dungeonsblowmind No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know. Lucretius degreesnamestime Thus the sum Lucretius spacegivinghands Thus, then, the All that is is limited Lucretius regionspathforever But since I've taught that bodies of matter, made Lucretius spacegoes-onprofound Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, Lucretius workmenmean ... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry. Lucretius paindoespring To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain. Lucretius hastelevelspower It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another. Lucretius struggleseawind Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace. Lucretius other-worldsour-worldair The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by soft falling. Lucretius Nothing can be created from nothing. 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 The falling drops at last will wear the stone. Lucretius What is food to one man is bitter poison to others. Lucretius
