17 Quotes by Lucretius Lucretius
- From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
- In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
- Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
- The sum of all sums is eternity.
- We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
- From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
- Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
- Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
- The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
- The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
- Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
- Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
- So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
- Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
- It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
- The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
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