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On the Nature of Things
by Lucretius
Epicurean physics as poetry: atoms, void, no afterlife, no fear, the swerve. One of the most astonishing books that survived antiquity.
Read it if…
you want materialism as consolation, in verse.
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Skip it if…
you want prose philosophy.
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Three things you will actually use
- Death is nothing to us.
- Nature explains.
- Pleasure is tranquility.
Do this first
Read Book Three on the fear of death.
Our verdict
Lucretius.
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