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Philosophical Haiku


Lucretius (c.95-c.55 BCE)


by Terence Green




Fear not time’s passage,
 Such is the nature of things.
 Live until you cease.




Lucretius


Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet. And I’m afraid, biographically, that’s about all we know.


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