Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness. Lucretius More Quotes by Lucretius More Quotes From Lucretius By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death. Lucretius duration It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. Lucretius morrow doubtful fortune Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile. Lucretius calm never-trust sea 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 weakness age fall We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body. Lucretius decay strength mind 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 atoms atheism fall 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-you lovely light And thus thou canst remark that every act Lucretius body names goes-on For common instinct of our race declares Lucretius body race mind Those vestiges of natures left behind Lucretius worthy reason men The sum of things there is no power can change, Lucretius matter spring world And many kinds of creatures must have died, Lucretius life science death Nor can those motions that bring death prevail Lucretius growth forever giving [N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death. Lucretius aids one-thing born A property is that which not at all Lucretius rocks fire water Such evil deeds could religion prompt. Lucretius wickedness deeds evil Now come: that thou mayst able be to know Lucretius light sweet long There is no place in nature for extinction. Lucretius extinction nature Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them. Lucretius accepting religious god It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. Lucretius greatest-wealth soul mind
