Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness. Lucretius More Quotes by Lucretius More Quotes From Lucretius O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm. Lucretius goddess immortal charm 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 strong jam mind 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 names men children 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 generations space literature One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death. Lucretius atheism rage fear What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? Lucretius truth giving knowledge 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 religious men mean 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 thunder wall world Falling drops will at last wear away stone. Lucretius lasts stones fall How many evils has religion caused! Lucretius evil religion I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky, Lucretius law names sky Fear holds dominion over mortality Lucretius wise men thinking All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Lucretius void body self Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Lucretius stars flower mother ...Thus it comes Lucretius earth bears rain I own with reason: for, if men but knew Lucretius strong would-be men Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Lucretius gentle fields air When bodies spring apart, because the air Lucretius body air spring But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked Lucretius body doubt forever
