It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
LucretiusThough the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LucretiusIt is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LucretiusIf God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
Lucretius