The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop. Lucretius More Quotes by Lucretius More Quotes From Lucretius It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. Lucretius morrowdoubtfulfortune Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile. Lucretius calmnever-trustsea Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another. Lucretius weaknessagefall We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body. Lucretius decaystrengthmind Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift. Lucretius atomsatheismfall You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely. Lucretius without-youlovelylight And thus thou canst remark that every act Lucretius bodynamesgoes-on For common instinct of our race declares Lucretius bodyracemind Those vestiges of natures left behind Lucretius worthyreasonmen The sum of things there is no power can change, Lucretius matterspringworld And many kinds of creatures must have died, Lucretius lifesciencedeath Nor can those motions that bring death prevail Lucretius growthforevergiving [N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death. Lucretius aidsone-thingborn A property is that which not at all Lucretius rocksfirewater Such evil deeds could religion prompt. Lucretius wickednessdeedsevil Now come: that thou mayst able be to know Lucretius lightsweetlong There is no place in nature for extinction. Lucretius extinctionnature Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them. Lucretius acceptingreligiousgod It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. Lucretius greatest-wealthsoulmind Nothing from nothing ever yet was born. Lucretius born
