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Lucretius

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Cur non ut plenus vitae conviva recedis
aequo animoque capis securam, stulte, quietem?
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Book III, line 938-9.

 
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