Tao Te Ching

“The greatest poet as well as the greatest philosopher of Rome, Lucretius was a strange man, nervous and unstable—a man born for peace but forced to live in the midst of Caesar's alarms; a man with the make-up of a mystic and a saint, hardening himself into a materialist and a skeptic.”

— Will Durant 1885 – 1981 CE via Shan Dao
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