Frases de Lucrecio

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Lucrecio

Fecha de nacimiento: 94 a.C.
Fecha de muerte: 55 a.C.
Otros nombres:Lucretius Carus,Titus Carus Lucretius

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Tito Lucrecio Caro fue un poeta y filósofo romano.

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Frases Lucrecio

„Si los sentidos no son veraces, toda nuestra razón es falsa.“

— Lucrecio

„¿Por qué no salir de esta vida como sale de un banquete el convidado harto?“

— Lucrecio

De vida

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„Cuando la necesidad nos arranca palabras sinceras, cae la máscara y aparece el hombre.“

— Lucrecio

De hombres

„Lo que para unos es comida, para otros es amargo veneno“

— Lucrecio

De comida

„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)

„So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.“

— Lucretius
Book III, lines 55–58 (reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations)

„Nothing is ever gotten out of nothing by divine power.“

— Lucretius
Book I, line 150 (tr. Munro)

„What once sprung from earth sinks back into the earth.“

— Lucretius
Book II, lines 999–1000 (tr. Bailey)

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„Custom renders love attractive; for that which is struck by oft-repeated blows however lightly, yet after long course of time is overpowered and gives way. See you not too that drops of water falling on rocks after long course of time scoop a hole through these rocks?“

— Lucretius
Book IV, lines 1283–1287 (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).

„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.