A man leaves his great house because he's bored
With life at home, and suddenly returns,
Finding himself no happier abroad.
He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,
You'ld think he's going to a house on fire,
And yawns before he's put his foot inside,
Or falls asleep and seeks oblivion,
Or even rushes back to town again.
So each man flies from himself (vain hope, because
It clings to him the more closely against his will)
And hates himself because he is sick in mind
And does not know the cause of his disease.
Stichwörter: philosophy classics latin ancient-rome lucretius
All things keep on in everlasting motion,
Out of the infinite come the particles,
Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
Stichwörter: lucretius de-rerum-natura
Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.
LucretiusThe supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread out. For nothing is ever added to it or subtracted from it. It follows that the movement of atoms today is no different from what it was in bygone ages and always will be. So the things that have regularly come into being will continue to come into being in the same manner; they will be and grow and flourish so far as each is allowed by the laws of nature.
LucretiusStichwörter: philosophy nature universe lucretius atoms
Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish, grief and fear. What more natural than that it should likewise have a share in death?
LucretiusStichwörter: philosophy death mind spirit lucretius
Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.
LucretiusStichwörter: philosophy nature death universe lucretius
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LucretiusStichwörter: wind lucretius air
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