Lucretius(Titus Lucretius Carus)

99 B.C – He was a Roman poet and philosopher who were assumed to have been born on this year. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem De Rerum Natura, On the Nature of Things.

55 B.C – it was also presumed that he died at age 43 on this year.

• "What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven."
• "Pleasant it is, when over a 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 you are free of them yourself is pleasant."