Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LucretiusLook at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LucretiusEpicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
LucretiusSo, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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