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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all. — Lucretius

Poem · Philosophical literature · Didactic poem

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

In the original Latin

Vitaque mancipio, nulli datur, omnibus usu.

Lucretius
On the Nature of Things · 55 BC
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Provenance
Current citation
Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 3, l. 971.
Original citation
Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 3, l. 971.

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