The way things are . The discourses of Epictetus . The meditations of Marcus Aurelius . The six Enneads Lucretius ; [translated by Rolfe Humphries] . [tran... T Lucretius Carus,Epictetus,EOR Marcus Aurelius,... - Encyclopædia Britannica 被引量: 1发表: 1990年 VirgilontheNatureofThings:Th...
Titus Lucretius Carus, or simply Lucretius (~94鈥 55 bce), wrote the epic philosophical poem De Rerum Natura (common translation: On the Nature of Things, On the Nature of the Universe or The Way Things Are). The poem is an early scientific...
[1:62] Humanity has long been oppressed under the grim weight of religion, but Epicurus was the first man with the force of mind to discover the truth of the way things really are, showing us the limits, boundaries, and benchmarks set by nature; in so doing he broke religion’s oppre...
20. “Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.” —Lucretius 2 0 Download 10 Wallpapers 21. “No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are...
Lucretius : on the nature of things . The discourses of Epictetus . The meditations of Marcus Aurelius This article has no associated abstract. ( fix it ) T Lucretius Carus,RM Hutchins,G Long 被引量: 1发表: 1952年 The golden age of rapid eye movement sleep discoveries. 1. Lucretius--196...
Since you are sole mistress of the nature of things, and without you nothing rises up into the divine light, and nothing grows to be glad or lovely, I ask that you help me in writing these verses on the nature of things…. …
Most of the things we might seek in life – especially happiness – we will cease to have when we die, or so it seems. This fact is sobering; our choice is to be aware of it (and therefore be in some sense philosophical) or to be caught unawares, die unprepared and miserable. For...
He addresses the question of the immense variety of material things found in nature by recognizing that there must be some way for atoms to combine and at the same time maintain their individual characters: "Material objects are of two kinds, atoms and compounds of atoms. The atoms themselves...
how the omens which have been are again changed, when their fury has thus been appeased: [I have willed at the same time] to explain all the other things which mortals observe to go on upon earth and in heaven, when often they are in anxious suspense of mind, and which abase their ...
There are two things that are advised to protect ourselves from this problem while investing. First is to protect your downside. Which means staying away from debt and investing only that portion of your net worth in stocks which you are willing to lose (for the sake of adequate long term ...