"Scilicet et fluvius qui visus maximus ei, Qui non ante aliquem majorem vidit; et ingens Arbor, homoque videtur, et omnia de genere omni Maxima quae vidit quisque, haec ingentia fingit."
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Book VI, lines 674β677 (quoted in The Essays of Michel de Montaigne, tr. W. C. Hazlitt)
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Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99 BC β 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His major work is De Rerum Natura, On the Nature of Things, which is considered by some to be the greatest masterpiece of Latin verse.
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