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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
Titus Lucretius Carus
Death
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Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
— Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
Eternity
Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs. [Lat., Medio de fonte leporum Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]
— Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. [Lat., Suave mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis E terra magnum alterius spectare laborum.]
— Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
Misfortune
Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs. [Lat., Medio de fonte leporum Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]
— Lucretius Titus Lucretius Carus
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