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?
Lucretius
Orion's Cold Fire
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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?
Lucretius
That is one beautifully eloquent way of telling someone to “Drop dead!”
Titus Lucretius Carus was truly a poet and philosopher.
Considering that he was forced by Nero to commit suicide in his twenties, you can say he put his money where his mouth was. Now, you have to wonder on that last day whether he had any second thoughts about the whole calm mind thing.