Titus Lucretius Carus

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(ca. 99 BCE – ca. 55 BCE) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is an epic philosophical poem laying out the beliefs of Epicureanism, De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things or "On the Nature of the Universe".

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	The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura by Titus Lucretius Carus, Rolfe Humphries 3.87 avg rating — 1,714 ratings — published 55 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Selections from De Rerum Natura by Titus Lucretius Carus, Bonnie Catto 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 54 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sensation and Sex (Great Ideas, Series 2) 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	De Rerum Natura: Vol 1 of 3 (Academic Monograph Reprint) by Titus Lucretius Carus, Cyril Bailey 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1986	My rating:
	De Rerum Natura VI by Titus Lucretius Carus, John Godwin 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	My rating:
	On Matter and Man 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	The scheme of Epicurus; a rendering into English verse of the unfinished poem of Lucretius, entitled De rerum natura, 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	On the Nature of Things 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	Vivere Laico by Titus Lucretius Carus, P. Marsich (Redattore) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	My rating:
	De Rerum Natura III by Titus Lucretius Carus, P. Michael Brown 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997 — 9 editions	My rating:

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“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.”
― Titus Lucretius Carus

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“All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.”
― Titus Lucretius Carus, On the Nature of Things: de Rerum Natura

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“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
― Titus Lucretius Carus

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