Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUS
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Lucretius144 quotes“Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.”
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LucretiusLucretius Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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