Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.
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Lucretius was Roman 1st-century bc roman poet and philosopher. Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, which usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things—and somewhat less often as On the Nature of the Universe. Read more on Wikipedia →