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Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
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Blessed is he who has been able to win knowledge of the causes of things.
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Book II, line 490 (translated by H. Rushton Fairclough); of Lucretius.
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Happy the man who could search out the causes of things.
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Happy is the one who knows the causes of things.

 
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