Lucretius
historical figure · 5 works · 8 mentions · 13 anchored passages · author page
I · the poet
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Roman poet-philosopher quoted on the confusion and fear of human minds
But it is false, Lucretius;
"For just as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we fear in the light.
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 understandest their utility.
If by such method haply I might hold
Stirred with a motion everlasting on,
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.