Quotes Tagged With :lucretius

Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed....

The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread....

A man leaves his great house because he's boredWith life at home, and suddenly returns,Finding himself....

Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows....

Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of....

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others

The whole of life but labours in the dark.For just as children tremble and fear allIn the viewless dark,....

To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious....