Lovely it is, when the winds are churning up the waves on the great sea, to gaze out… — Lucretius
Lovely it is, when the winds are churning up the waves on the great sea, to gaze out from the land on the great efforts of someone else; not because it's an enjoyable pleasure that somebody is in difficulties, but because it's lovely to realize what troubles you are yourself spared.
In the original Latin
Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis, E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem. Non quia vexari quemquamst iucunda voluptas, Sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est.
On the Nature of Things · 55 BC
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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 2, l. 1.
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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 2, l. 1.
