Lucretius Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

  Lucretius

  Rainy Day, Greatest Wealth, Mind

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

  Lucretius

  Men, Wickedness, Literature

• 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 from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.

  Lucretius

  Gratitude, Men, Wind

  "On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius, Book II, lines 1 - 4 (tr. Rouse),

• The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

  Lucretius

  Perseverance, Fall, Water

• Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

  Lucretius

  War, Encounters, Literature

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”

• Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

  Lucretius

  Blow, Mind, Dungeons

• Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

  Lucretius

  Sweet, Struggle, Wind

• 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.

  Lucretius

  Space, Generations, Literature

• From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Enchantment, Literature

• Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

  Lucretius

  Heaven, Victory, Literature

• In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Literature, Bitterness

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1855.

• From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Heart, Delight

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