Pleasant it is... to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation:.... to percieve what what ills you are free from yourself is pleasent. Pleasent is it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in the peril... O blind intelligences! In what gloom of life, that pain be removed away out of the body, and that the mind, kept away from care and fear, enjoy a feeling of delight!
On the nature of things
Loeb pp. 145
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