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Lucretius (99 BC - 55 BC) was a renowned Greek Roman poet, hailed as the peak of Greek Roman philosophical poetry. His work 'On the Nature of Things' presented the natural philosophical ideas of the Greek philosopher Democritus in poetic form, which had a profound impact on later generations.

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“We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.”

Matter Philosophy Seeds Nothingness

Author:Lucretius

“If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?”

Ifs Should Matter Sleep Grief Eternal Bitter

Book:On the Nature of Things

Source: On the Nature of Things

“Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.”

Mind Matter Understood Mortals

Author:Lucretius

“I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky, And the primordial germs of things unfold, Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies And fosters all, and whither she resolves Each in the end when each is overthrown. This ultimate stock we have devised to name Procreant atoms, matter, seeds of things, Or primal bodies, as primal to the world.”

World Ends Matter Body Law Names Sky Prove Ultimate Seeds Supreme Resolve Atoms Primal Germs

Book:The Way Things Are

Source: The Way Things Are

“But since I've taught that bodies of matter, made Completely solid, hither and thither fly Forevermore unconquered through all time, Now come, and whether to the sum of them There be a limit or be none, for thee Let us unfold; likewise what has been found To be the wide inane, or room, or space Wherein all things soever do go on, Let us examine if it finite be All and entire, or reach unmeasured round And downward an illimitable profound.”

Ifs Has Beens Made Matter Body Found Space Rooms Taught Goes On Limits All Things Profound Rounds Wide All Time Thee Finite

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)

“The sum of things there is no power can change, For naught exists outside, to which can flee Out of the world matter of any kind, Nor forth from which a fresh supply can spring, Break in upon the founded world, and change Whole nature of things, and turn their motions about.”

World Kind Matter Whole Turns Break Spring Spring Break

Book:The Way Things Are

Source: The Way Things Are

“Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.”

World Matter Air Embrace Aliens Our World Elsewhere Ufo Other Worlds Assemblage

Book:The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus

Source: The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus

“No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through”

Looks May Matter Action Difficult Tasks Encouragement Persistence Steady

Author:Lucretius

“Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness!”

Ifs World Made Matter Past Science Clear Infinite Immortal Atoms Immense Nothingness Infinite Time

Book:De rerum natura

Source: De rerum natura

About the Author

Born: 99 BC
Died: 55 BC
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 202

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