Lucretius/life

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    “Thy seas in delicate haze
    Go off; those mooned sands forsake their place;
    And where they are, shall other seas in turn
    Mow with their scythes of whiteness other bays.”
    —Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)

    “That life protracted is protracted woe.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)