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Lucretius - Yes, to seek power that's vain and never...

Yes, to seek power that's vain and never granted
and for it to suffer hardship and endless pain:
this is to heave and strain to push uphill
a boulder, that still from the very top rolls back
and bounds and bounces down to the bare, broad field. (Lucretius)

Yes, to seek power that's vain and never granted and for it to suffer hardship and endless pain: this is to heave and strain to push uphill a boulder, that still from the very top rolls back and bounds and bounces down to the bare, broad field.

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