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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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“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.”

World Seems Wall All Things Violent Thunder

Book:On the Nature of Things

Source: On the Nature of Things

“Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.”

World States Whole Whole World

Book:De rerum natura

Source: De rerum natura

“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.”

World States Whole Age Earth Fall Grows One Thing Weakness

Book:De rerum natura

Source: De rerum natura

“If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.”

Ifs World Giving Mind Long Mother Names Sea Atheism Decided Rounds Careful Positive Atheism Superstitions Corn Liquor Bacchus Neptune Round World

Author:Lucretius

“There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)”

World Atheism Positive Atheism

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

“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

“Nor can those motions that bring death prevail Forever, nor eternally entomb The welfare of the world; nor, further, can Those motions that give birth to things and growth Keep them forever when created there.”

World Giving Growth Forever Birth Welfare

Book:On the Nature of Things

Source: On the Nature of Things

“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

“I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward winds. First the Earth gave the shimmer of greenery And grasses to deck the hills; then over the meadows The flowering fields are bright with the color of springtime, And for all the trees that shoot into the air.”

World Firsts Light Earth Air Tree Fields Color Wind Return Hills Grass Soil Shore Trusted Springtime Meadows Deck Newborn Flowering Birthing Shimmer Greenery

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

“If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms into unions - exactly as united now, Why then confess you must That other worlds exist in other regions of the sky, And different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts.”

Ifs Men World Kind Different United Creative Greater Sky Walking Moon Unions Beast Regions Atoms Tribes Living Things Other Worlds Star Gazing Creative Power Wild Beasts

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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