Quotes by : Lucretius

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind....

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase,....

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.