Roman Epicureanism
On the Nature of Things
Titus Lucretius Carus • De Rerum Natura: Epicurean Physics, Atoms, and the Mind
DAILY PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEMPLATION
Book II • The Atomic Motion
"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not that any man's distress is delightful, but because it is pleasant to see what evils you are yourself free from."
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