By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
Nothing can be created from nothing.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.