Lucretius
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Epicurus and Lucretius saw the fear of death as our most debilitating fear, and they argued that we must overcome this fear if we were going to live happy lives.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
So there he is, among this philosophical elite, who share the rediscovered wisdom of such ancient authors as Plato and Lucretius, recently rediscovered in Florence.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2020
Lucretius, as Greenblatt notes in “The Swerve,” called his own poem “honey smeared around the lip of a cup containing medicine that a sick man might otherwise refuse to drink.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2017
The Encyclopedia Dramatica page for “lulz” quotes Lucretius on the pleasures of watching a pot boil from safety.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2014
The same phrase is then employed by Newton in his definition of inertia; he evidently took the phrase from Descartes, and discovered only later that it originated in Lucretius.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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