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“A man leaves his great house because he's bored With life at home, and suddenly returns, Finding himself no happier abroad. He rushes off to his villa driving like mad, You'ld think he's going to a house on fire, And yawns before he's put his foot inside, Or falls asleep and seeks oblivion, Or even rushes back to town again. So each man flies from himself (vain hope, because It clings to him the more closely against his will) And hates himself because he is sick in mind And does not know the cause of his disease.”

Philosophy Latin Classics Ancient Rome Lucretius

Author:Lucretius

“The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread out. For nothing is ever added to it or subtracted from it. It follows that the movement of atoms today is no different from what it was in bygone ages and always will be. So the things that have regularly come into being will continue to come into being in the same manner; they will be and grow and flourish so far as each is allowed by the laws of nature.”

Philosophy Universe Nature Atoms Lucretius

Book:On the Nature of Things

Source: On the Nature of Things

“Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.”

Philosophy Death Universe Nature Lucretius

Author:Lucretius

“Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish, grief and fear. What more natural than that it should likewise have a share in death?”

Mind Philosophy Death Spirit Lucretius

Book:On the Nature of Things

Source: On the Nature of Things

“Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.”

Wealth Lucretius

Book:On the Nature of Things

Source: On the Nature of Things

“To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.”

Character Money Morality Disease Ethics Adversity Generosity Insecurity Morals Peril Contagious Public Health Disease Prevention Lucretius

Author:T.K. Naliaka

“The whole of life but labours in the dark. For just as children tremble and fear all In the viewless dark, so even we at times Dread in the light so many things that be No whit more fearsome than what children feign, Shuddering, will be upon them in the dark. This terror then, this darkness of the mind, Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light, Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse, But only nature's aspect and her law.”

Love Spirituality Nature Psychology Greek Lucretius Bc

Book:Lucretius On the Nature of Things

Source: Lucretius On the Nature of Things

“The popular conception of any philosophical doctrine is necessarily imperfect, and very generally unjust. Lucretius is often alluded to as an atheistical writer, who held the silly opinion that the universe was the result of a fortuitous concourse of atoms readers are asked to consider how long letters must be shaken in a bag before a complete annotated edition of Shakespeare could result from the process; and after being reminded how much more complex the universe is than the works of Shakespeare, they are expected to hold Lucretius, with his teachers and his followers, in derision. A nickname which sticks has generally some truth in it, and so has the above view, but it would be unjust to form our judgment of a man from his nickname alone, and we may profitably consider what the real tenets of Lucretius were, especially now that men of science are beginning, after a long pause in the inquiry, once more eagerly to attempt some explanation of the ultimate constitution of matter.”

Matter Truth Science Universe Philosophical Doctrine Shakespeare William Shakespeare Atomic Theory Lucretius Atheistical

Book:Papers, Literary, Scientific, Etc. (Cambridge Library Collection - Technology)

Source: Papers, Literary, Scientific, Etc. (Cambridge Library Collection - Technology)