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7 Quotes for 'Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)' in the Database.
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Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) Quotes
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the
universe).
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
Topic: Eternity
Source: De Rerum Natura (III, 817)
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]
Topic: Joy
Source: De Rerum Natura (IV, 1,129), translated in Byron's "Childe Harold", canto I., st. 82
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the
great distress of another.
[Lat., Suave mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis
E terra magnum alterius spectare laborum.]
Topic: Misfortune
Source: De Rerum Natura (II, 1)
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all
things return dissolved into their elements.
[Lat., Haud igitur redit ad Nihilum res ulla, sed omnes
Discidio redeunt in corpora materiai.]
Topic: Nothingness
Source: De Rerum Natura (bk. I, 250)
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since
things require a seed to start from.
[Lat., Nil igitur fieri de nilo posse putandum es
Semine quando opus est rebus.]
Topic: Nothingness
Source: De Rerum Natura (bk. I, l. 206)
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Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters.
Topic: Nothingness
Source: De Rerum Natura (bk. I, l. 206)
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
[Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]
Topic: Secrecy
Source: De Rerum Natura (IV, 1,182)
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