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PENSIVE and a Classic Poem
Note an Image by A. Rodin
from Titus Lucretius Carus 145-30 BC
" There is WEIGHT ON THEIR MINDS and a MOUNTAIN OF MISERY LIES ON THEIR HEARTS ... FOR EACH NOT KNOWING WHAT HE WANTS SEEKS ALWAYS TO CHANGE HIS PLACE AS IF HE COULD DROP HIS BURDEN HERE IS ONE WHO BORED TO DEATH AT HOME GOES FORTH ... FROM HIS PALACE ... TO HIS COUNTRY HOUSE ... HE HAS HARDLY CROSSED THE THRESHOLD WHEN HE YAWNS OR SEEKS OBLIVION IN A HEAVY SLEEP OR EVEN HURRIES BACK TO THE CITY SO EACH MAN FLEES FROM HIMSELF ... THE SELF WHICH HE CANNOT ESCAPE CLEAVES TO HIM ALL THE MORE AGAINST HIS WILL HE HATES HIMSELF BECAUSE A SICK MAN HE DOES NOT KNOW THE CAUSE OF HIS COMPLAINT ANY MAN ... BEFORE ALL ELSE WOULD SEEK TO UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF THINGS " from " DE RERUM NATURA "
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