Frases de Lucrecio
Lucrecio
Fecha de nacimiento: 94 a.C.
Fecha de muerte: 55 a.C.
Otros nombres:Lucretius Carus, Titus Carus Lucretius
Tito Lucrecio Caro fue un poeta y filósofo romano.
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Frases Lucrecio
„Therefore death is nothing to us“
— Lucretius
Context: Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
Book III, lines 830–831 (tr. Rouse)
„The first-beginnings of things cannot be seen by the eyes.“
— Lucretius
Book I, line 268 (tr. Munro)
„All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.“
— Lucretius
As quoted in What Great Men Think of Religion (1972 [1945]) by Ira D. Cardiff, p. 245. Actually said by Edward Gibbonː "The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776, Vol. I, Ch. II).
„What once sprung from earth sinks back into the earth.“
— Lucretius
Book II, lines 999–1000 (tr. Bailey)
„So potent was Religion in persuading to do wrong.“
— Lucretius
Book I, line 101 (tr. Alicia Stallings)
H. A. J. Munro's translation:
So great the evils to which religion could prompt!
W. H. D. Rouse's translation:
So potent was Superstition in persuading to evil deeds.
„Nothing is ever gotten out of nothing by divine power.“
— Lucretius
Book I, line 150 (tr. Munro)
„A thing therefore never returns to nothing.“
— Lucretius
Book I, line 248 (tr. Munro)
„All things must needs be borne on through the calm void moving at equal rate with unequal weights.“
— Lucretius
Book II, lines 238–239 (tr. Bailey)
„Again and again our foe, religion, has given birth to deeds sinful and unholy.“
— Lucretius
Book I, lines 82–83 (tr. C. Bailey)
„Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.“
— Lucretius
Book V, lines 1152–1153 (tr. Rouse)
„The steady drip of water causes stone to hollow and yield.“
— Lucretius
Book I, line 313 (tr. Stallings)
Variant translation: Continual dropping wears away a stone.
Compare: "The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks", John Lyly, Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), p. 81
„A little river seems to him, who has never seen a larger river, a mighty stream; and so with other things—a tree, a man—anything appears greatest to him that never knew a greater.“
— Lucretius
Book VI, lines 674–677 (quoted in The Essays of Michel de Montaigne, tr. W. C. Hazlitt)
