Roman - Poet | 94 BC - 55 BC
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
Lucretius
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Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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