Human beings, Lucretius thought, must not drink in the poisonous belief that their souls are only part of the world temporarily and they are heading somewhere else. That belief will only spawn in them a destructive relation to the environment in which they live the only lives they have.

Stephen Greenblatt
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Lucretius is a Roman philosopher who wrote about the nature of life and death.

Source: The Swerve: How The World Became Modern

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