Lucretius/style

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“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation; not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.”
—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)

“One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)