(August 3, 2014 at 2:19 pm)oukoida Wrote:(August 3, 2014 at 1:55 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I gotta say, Lucretius (first-century B.C.), whose "The Nature of Things" I just began reading, is mind-boggingly good and in many respects far ahead of his time!
He's my favorite too. One of the best verses in the whole poem is "Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum" (such evil could religion suggest) which refers to Agamennon sacrificing his daughter Iphigenia but which I think is a sadly recurring truth in human history.
Yes! I believe that was in Book I. That was definitely one of the ones I highlighted.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
