this terror then and drakness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and the law of nature; the warp whose design we shall begin with this first principle, nothing is ever gotten out of nothing by divine power.
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About Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Lucretius Carus was Roman 1st-century bc roman poet and philosopher. Titus Lucretius Carus 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, which usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things—and somewhat less often as On the Nature of the Universe. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Nature — Appreciation for the natural world and our place within it