Creative Quotations from Lucretius (99BC-5BC)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Lucretius
(99BC-5BC) born on

Roman "poet, philosopher". "He wrote six books and an unfinished didactic poem, "De Rerum Natura," based on Epicurean doctrine."

The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the torch of life.."

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied."

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

The sum of all sums is eternity.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"On the Nature of the Universe," II"
R:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
A:	"On the Nature of Things," III"
N:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
K:	"In "My Favorite Quotations," by Norman Vincent Peale, 1990."