The Bone Clocks on On the Nature of Things: “I turn to my place in Lucretius's De Rerum Natura, but my thoughts, if not my soul, are still a mile or two to the west.”
The Satanic Verses on On the Nature of Things: “'Question of mutability of the essence of the self,' he began, awkwardly, 'has long been subject of profound debate. For example, great Lucretius tells us, in De Rerum Natura, this following thing: quodcumque suis mutatum finibus exit, continuo hoc mors est illius quod fuit ante.'”