“So long as the object of our craving is unattained, it seems more precious than anything. But once it is ours, we crave for something else.”
— Lucretius 99 – 55 BCE via R.E. Latham, Shan Dao
(Titus Carus)
from De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
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