Lucretius Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: 99 BC - 55 BC
Birthday: 99 BC
Death: 55 BC
Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
topic: Lying, Grief, Responsibility, Festering, Prostration, Vindictive
