“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.” KnowsMenMeanWould BeAbleReligiousFictionPoetLimitsEternalPunishmentFixedWoeResistingMenace Book:Lucretius On the Nature of Things Source: Lucretius On the Nature of Things