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From the Wikipedia page; (Quote)
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Thoreau on the subject: (Quote) -A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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(Quote) Now these are somewhat more interesting questions at least to me. Per usual with Epicurus we are left with observations rather than commandments, as here; (Quote) And here; (Quote) Dioges of Oenoanda is generally the most explicit when it comes to answering your questions, Pacatus. (Quote)
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And of course Lucretius, who starts his poem by asking Venus for the blessings of peace: (Quote) If Lucretius did die in 50 B.C. or just before that, then he narrowly escaped the seismic and bloody Roman Civil Wars of the 1st and 2nd triumvirates, 49-44 B.C. In retrospect his plaintive call for peace on the eve of bitter war begins to assume dramatic and even tragic proportions.
