Lucretius Quotes


Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.


Citations

Lucretius. On the Nature of Things. Translated by H. A. J. Munro, George Bell and Sons, 1908, p. 25.

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Lucretius
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  • Nationality: Roman
  • Profession: Poet

Titus Lucretius Carus (/ˈtaɪtəs luːˈkriːʃəs/ TY-təs loo-KREE-shəs, Latin: [ˈtɪtʊs lʊˈkreːtɪ.ʊs ˈkaːrʊs]; c. 99 – c. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, and which usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things. Lucretius has been credited with originating the concept of the three-age system that was formalised in 1836 by C. J. Thomsen.