„Lo que para unos es comida, para otros es amargo veneno.“
— Lucrecio
De la naturaleza de las cosas
Fuente: [Durschmied], Erik. La cruzada del odio. Ediciones Robinbook. ISBN 9788499170220, p. 256.
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
Tito Lucrecio Caro fue un poeta y filósofo romano.
Frases Lucrecio
„Cuando la necesidad nos arranca palabras sinceras, cae la máscara y aparece el hombre.“
— Lucrecio
De la naturaleza de las cosas
Fuente: [Palomo Triguero], Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros, S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4, p. 220.
„¿Por qué no salir de esta vida como sale de un banquete el convidado: harto?“
— Lucrecio
De la naturaleza de las cosas
Original: ... Cur non ut plenus vitae conviva recedis? Aequo animoque capis securam, stulte, quietem?...
Variante: «¿... Por qué no te retires, como el convidado saciado del banquete de la vida, y con mente tranquila, abraces, necio, un descanso tranquilo?».
Fuente: [Doval Huecas], Gregorio. El pequeño libro de las grandes citas de humor (cita 84). Editorial Grupo Planeta, 2016. ISBN 9788416253982. https://books.google.es/books?id=9wHCDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT22&dq=%22%C2%BFPor+qu%C3%A9+no+salir+de+esta+vida+como+sale+de+un+banquete+el+convidado+harto?%22+doval&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVncSEkbzkAhVBzYUKHWASC6AQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=%22%C2%BFPor%20qu%C3%A9%20no%20salir%20de%20esta%20vida%20como%20sale%20de%20un%20banquete%20el%20convidado%20harto%3F%22%20doval&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 6 de septiembre de 2019.
Fuente: De Rerum Natura 3,931-939. Citado por Quevedo.
Fuente: [Moya del Baño], Francisca. Quevedo y sus ediciones de textos clásicos: Las citas grecolatinas y la biblioteca clásica de Quevedo, p. 144. Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia (Editum), 2014. ISBN 8416038678, 9788416038671. https://books.google.es/books?id=0s0uDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&dq=%22Cur+non+ut+plenus+vitae+conviva+recedis+aequo+animoque+capis+securam,+stulte,+quietem?%22&source=bl&ots=PId5Su9FA7&sig=ACfU3U0hXbjbYOKPONep1ivicKLJ5a5VRw&hl=es&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjCrIa87rvkAhUP4BoKHU0XDZQQ6AEwA3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Cur%20non%20ut%20plenus%20vitae%20conviva%20recedis%20aequo%20animoque%20capis%20securam%2C%20stulte%2C%20quietem%3F%22&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 6 de septiembre de 2019.
„Si los sentidos no son veraces, toda nuestra razón es falsa.“
— Lucrecio
De la naturaleza de las cosas
Fuente: [Ortega Blake], Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013 ISBN 978-60-7311-631-2.
„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)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum,
quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.
„By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.“
Book III, lines 1087–1088 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Nec prorsum vitam ducendo demimus hilum
tempore de mortis nec delibare valemus.
„Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortal creatures live dependent one upon another. Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.“
Sic rerum summa novatur
semper, et inter se mortales mutua vivunt.
augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur,
inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum
et quasi cursores vitae lampada tradunt.
Book II, line 75 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Sic rerum summa novatur
semper, et inter se mortales mutua vivunt.
augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur,
inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum
et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.
„In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.“
Book IV, lines 1133–1134 (reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations)
Variant translation: From the midst of the fountain of delights rises something bitter that chokes them all amongst the flowers.
Compare: "Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs / Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings", Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I, stanza 82
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Medio de fonte leporum
surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat.
„What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.“
Book IV, line 637 (reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations)
Compare: "What's one man's poison, signor, / Is another's meat or drink", Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure (1647), Act III, scene 2
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Ut quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum.
„Yes, to seek power that's vain and never granted
and for it to suffer hardship and endless pain:
this is to heave and strain to push uphill
a boulder, that still from the very top rolls back
and bounds and bounces down to the bare, broad field.“
Nam petere imperium quod inanest nec datur umquam,
atque in eo semper durum sufferre laborem,
hoc est adverso nixantem trudere monte
saxa quod tamen e summo iam vertice rursum
volvitur et plani raptim petit aequora campi.
Book III, lines 998–1002 (tr. Frank O. Copley)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Nam petere imperium quod inanest nec datur umquam,
atque in eo semper durum sufferre laborem,
hoc est adverso nixantem trudere monte
saxa quod tamen e summo iam vertice rursum
volvitur et plani raptim petit aequora campi.
„For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.“
Book II, lines 55–61 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Nam veluti pueri trepidant atque omnia caecis
in tenebris metuunt, sic nos in luce timemus
interdum, nilo quae sunt metuenda magis quam
quae pueri in tenebris pavitant finguntque futura.
hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessest
non radii solis neque lucida tela diei
discutiant sed naturae species ratioque.
„Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?“
Book III, lines 938–939 (tr. Bailey)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Cur non ut plenus vitae conviva recedis
aequo animoque capis securam, stulte, quietem?
„But if one should guide his life by true principles, man's greatest riches is to live on a little with contented mind; for a little is never lacking.“
Quod siquis vera vitam ratione gubernet,
divitiae grandes homini sunt vivere parvo
aequo animo; neque enim est umquam penuria parvi.
Book V, lines 1117–1119 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Quod siquis vera vitam ratione gubernet,
divitiae grandes homini sunt vivere parvo
aequo animo; neque enim est umquam penuria parvi.
„Nothing is ever gotten out of nothing by divine power.“
Book I, line 150 (tr. Munro)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam.
„So clearly will truths kindle light for truths.“
Book I, line 1117 (tr. W. H. D. Rouse and M. F. Smith)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Ita res accendent lumina rebus.
„Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.“
Book V, line 1140 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Nam cupide conculcatur nimis ante metutum.
„The living force of his soul gained the day: on he passed far beyond the flaming walls of the world and traversed throughout in mind and spirit the immeasurable universe.“
Book I, lines 72–74 (tr. H. A. J. Munro); of Epicurus.
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit et extra
processit longe flammantia moenia mundi
atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque.
„For every one feels to what purpose he can use his own powers. Before the horns of a calf appear and sprout from his forehead, he butts with them when angry, and pushes passionately.“
Book V, lines 1033–1035 (tr. Bailey)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Sentit enim vis quisque suas quoad possit abuti.
cornua nata prius vitulo quam frontibus extent,
illis iratus petit atque infestus inurget.
