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“It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.”

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Lucretius (99 BC - 55 BC) was a renowned Greek Roman poet, hailed as the peak of Greek Roman philosophical poetry. His work 'On the Nature of Things' presented the natural philosophical ideas of the Greek philosopher Democritus in poetic form, which had a profound impact on later generations. more

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