On the pleasure of standing on shore watching a shipwreck
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Suave magni maro turbantibus aequora ventis
e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem;
non quia vexari quemquamst jucunda voluptas,
sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est.
- Pleasant it is, when on the great sea, the winds trouble the waters,
- to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation:
- Not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy,
- but because to perceive what ills you are free from yourself is pleasant.
- De rerum natura, Book II, line 1[1] by Lucretius
- tr. Sisso and Rouse
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