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1SkepticalBrother wrote:

Poignant, simple and powerful. And unlike my usual loquacious and verbose comentaries, I'd like to end this comment with a few lines from an insightful man of antiquity.

The old always gives way and is
replaced by the new, and one thing
must be made good out of another.
There is no dark pit of Hell awaiting
anyone. Matter is needed, so that
later generations may grow; yet all of
them, too, will follow you when they
have lived out their span of life. As
with you, generations have passed
away before, and will do so again.
Thus one thing will never cease to
arise from another. To none is life
given in freehold; to all on lease. Look
back at the eternity of time that
passed before we were born, and see
how utterly unimportant it is to us.
Nature holds this up to us as a
mirror of the time that is to come
after we are dead. Is there anything
terrifying in the sight? Anything to
grieve over? Is it not a rest more
tranquil than any sleep?

Lucretius

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