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Epicurus master Lucretius — Lucretius regarded Epicurus as a liberator of humanity. De Rerum Natura is a poetic monument to Epicurean physics.
Ideas
Words
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And once it does come, we no longer exist.”
“Nothing is ever created by divine power out of nothing.”
“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.”
Key Moments
341 BCE
Born on Samos
306 BCE
The Garden
c. 305 BCE
Atoms and Tranquility
c. 290 BCE
Letters to Friends
c. 99 BCE
Born
c. 55 BCE
De Rerum Natura
c. 55 BCE
The Atomic Swerve
c. 55 BCE
Freeing the Reader from Fear
Works
The Dialogues and Discourses
Letter to Menoeceus
Principal Doctrines
On the Nature of Things