Q0043

Lucretius

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English

Therefore death is nothing to us, and does not concern us at all.
Thinker Lucretius
School Epicureanism
Source De Rerum Natura III.830
Theme Death
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Source context

This English passage is associated with De Rerum Natura III.830, within the tradition of Epicureanism. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of death, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Lucretius's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

How to cite this quotation

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MLA: Lucretius. “Therefore death is nothing to us, and does….” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0043.

Chicago: Lucretius. “Therefore death is nothing to us, and does….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0043.

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  1. Nothing can be created from nothing by divine agency.
  2. Pleasant it is, when winds trouble the great sea, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation.
  3. When human life lay foully for all to see, crushed to the earth under heavy religion…
  4. From the very fountain of delights rises something bitter that chokes among the flowers themselves.

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More on death

  1. Death is nothing to us: for what has been dissolved has no sensation, and what has no sensation is nothing to us.
  2. He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
  3. Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
  4. To philosophize is to learn how to die.
  5. Depart then in peace; the one who releases you is also at peace.

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