Lucretius T. Lucretius Carus
poet · Rome · 99?–55? BC
A poet who put the philosophy of Epicurus into a long poem in six books. Almost nothing is known of his life.
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c. 55 BC
It is sweet, when winds trouble the waters on the great sea, to watch from land another's great struggle; not because anyone's distress is a pleasure and delight, but because it is sweet to see what evils you yourself are spared.
Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis
e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem;
non quia vexari quemquamst iucunda voluptas,
sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suavest.On the Nature of Things, book 2, the opening
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