Lucretius Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.	Adversity
2	The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.	Birth
3	The sum of all sums is eternity.	Eternity
4	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 children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.	Fear
5	What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.	Immortality
6	No less long a time will he be no more, who has made an end of life with today's light.	Life
7	What can give us surer knowledge than our senses? With what else can we better distinguish the true from the false.	Senses
8	The ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of dripping water hollows the stone.	Time
9	But if one should guide his life by true principles, man's greatest wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for a little is never lacking.	Wealth

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