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)
„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)
„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.
„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)
„A thing therefore never returns to nothing.“
— Lucretius
Book I, line 248 (tr. Munro)
„To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.“
— Lucretius
Book III, line 971 (tr. R. E. Latham)
„The first-beginnings of things cannot be seen by the eyes.“
— Lucretius
Book I, line 268 (tr. Munro)