4 Quotes By Lucretius


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

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Lucretius on religion

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

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from...Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
Lucretius on nothing