Lucretius
historical figure · 5 works · 8 mentions · 13 anchored passages · author page · cited 8 times in 3 works
I · the poet
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Roman poet-philosopher quoted on the confusion and fear of human minds
"For just as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we fear in the light.
But it is false, Lucretius;
Cato, Cicero, Lucretius.
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman poet-philosopher cited on the natural instinct of creatures to defend themselves.
” On this subject Lucretius enlarges, observing that “every creature knows its own powers.
“In the same manner Lucretius calls the earth “a prolific parent and a common grave.
De Rerum Natura
The Epicurean didactic poet narrating and arguing throughout the poem, addressing a pupil and expounding the physics of images, vision, and the senses.
And of what things 'tis with the body knit
Spots that gave back even voices six or seven
And since I've taught what the mind's nature is,
On Tranquillity of Mind
Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher, cited for the line about each man fleeing himself.
As Lucretius says:
'Thus does each man forever flee himself.
De Anima
Roman Epicurean poet cited for the maxim that only bodies can touch or be touched.
But Chrysippus too lends him a hand, laying it down that corporeal things can in no way be deserted by incorporeal ones, since they are not even touched by them — whence Lucretius too says, ‘For nothing but body can touch or be touched’ — and that the body, being deserted by the soul, is affected by death.