Lucretius
Lucretius
Titus Lucretius Caruswas a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem De rerum natura about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, and which is usually translated into English as On the Nature of Things...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
lying mind atheism
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
men understanding mind
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]
mind decay body
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
blow mind dungeons
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
greatest-wealth soul mind
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
calm-mind care guests
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
discovery mind body
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
strong mind jam
When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail. [Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus, Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]
medicine sick mind
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
fighting mind atheism
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
race mind body
For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will there be whereunto to appeal On things occult when seeking aught to prove By reasonings of mind.
strength mind decay
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
mind matter understood
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
rainy-day greatest-wealth mind
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.