“Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?”

Book III, lines 938–939 (tr. Bailey)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)

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Roman poet and philosopher -94–-55 BC

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