Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered from periodic insanity – brought on, so some averred, by the pains of love or the unintended effects of a love philtre.

— Lucretius

Lucretius Quotes

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

— Lucretius

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

— Lucretius

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

— Lucretius

The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

— Lucretius

Such crimes has superstition caused.

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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.

— Lucretius

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

— Lucretius

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

— Lucretius

It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

— Lucretius

So much wrong could religion induce.

— Lucretius

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

— Lucretius

There is no place in nature for extinction.

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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

— Lucretius

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

— Lucretius

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

— Lucretius

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

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Time by itself does not exist; but from things themselves there results a sense of what has already taken place, what is now going on and what is to ensue. It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time by itself apart from the movement of things.

— Lucretius

Nothing appears as it should in a world where nothing is certain. The only certain is the existence of a secret violence that makes everything uncertain.

— Lucretius

To truly take the measure of a man, you must observe him in the midst of trial and tribulation-then, from the bottom of their hearts, men say what they believe; the mask is torn away, and what remains cannot deceive.

— Lucretius

Nada puede tocar ni ser tocado si no es cuerpo.

— Lucretius
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