Associations to the word «Lucretius»

Wiktionary

LUCRETIUS, proper noun. A male given name of mostly historical use in English.
LUCRETIUS, proper noun. Titus Lucretius Carus, a Roman poet and philosopher.

Dictionary definition

LUCRETIUS, noun. Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe (96-55 BC).

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin