Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.
LucretiusSweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
LucretiusEpicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
LucretiusYou may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
Lucretius