English summary: Combat despair with the promise of nothing, fight anguish through the contemplation of the laws of a world where everything happens by chance, of liberty and logic, where nothing is lost or created, composed of a treatise on physics in illuminated verses of poetry and beauty of desperation and gaiety - such is the apparent success of Lucretius, who in De Rerum Natura gives us the only systematic account of the epicurean doctrine. French text. French description: Guerir le mal de vivre par la promesse ...
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English summary: Combat despair with the promise of nothing, fight anguish through the contemplation of the laws of a world where everything happens by chance, of liberty and logic, where nothing is lost or created, composed of a treatise on physics in illuminated verses of poetry and beauty of desperation and gaiety - such is the apparent success of Lucretius, who in De Rerum Natura gives us the only systematic account of the epicurean doctrine. French text. French description: Guerir le mal de vivre par la promesse du neant, soigner l'angoisse par la contemplation des lois d'un monde fruit du hasard, de la liberte et de la logique, ou rien ne se perd ni ne se cree, composer un traite de physique en vers enlumines de poesie et de beaute, de desespoir et de gaite, tel est le pari reussi de Lucrece dont le De Rerum Natura nous donne le seul expose systematique de la doctrine epicurienne que nous a legue l'Antiquite, amere absinthe enrobee de miel, mais aussi potion magique, grosse pour le meilleur et pour le pire de la maitrise et possession de la nature , livre de chevet de Montaigne, de Pascal et de Frederic le Grand. Il faut parler avec respect de Lucrece. (Gustave Flaubert).
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