It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LucretiusViolence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LucretiusAnd part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.
Lucretius