Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered from periodic insanity - brought on, so some averred, by the pains of love or the unintended effects of a love philtre.

Lucretius's Popular Quotes

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

- Lucretius

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

- Lucretius

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

- Lucretius

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

- Lucretius

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

- Lucretius

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

- Lucretius

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.

- Lucretius

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

- Lucretius

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

- Lucretius