Everybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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Titus Lucretius Carus ( TY-tuhs loo-KREE-shuhs; Latin: [ˈtitʊs lʊˈkreːtɪ.ʊs ˈkaːrʊs]; c. 99 – October 15, 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, which usually is translated into English...

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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.