How sweet it is, when whirlwinds roil great ocean,
To watch, from the land, the danger of another,
Not that to see some other person suffer
Brings great enjoyment, but the sweetness lies
In watching evils you yourself are free from.
How sweet, again, to see the clash of battle
Across the plains, yourself immune to danger.
Lucretius
The way things are
Book II P. 52
To watch, from the land, the danger of another,
Not that to see some other person suffer
Brings great enjoyment, but the sweetness lies
In watching evils you yourself are free from.
How sweet, again, to see the clash of battle
Across the plains, yourself immune to danger.
Lucretius
The way things are
Book II P. 52
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