Question

based off of Lucretius "On Death and the Nature of the Soul" from De Reum Natura

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Question 3 of 7 Lucretius - On Love / Points: 6 When it comes to romantic love, which of the following are recommendations suggested by Lucretius? A) Rather than focusing on the passionate fire of lust, find yourself a nice, decent person with whom you get along well. Just as the rain slowly wears out the hardest stone, so friendship and mutual respect can outlast the insincerity of erotic lust. B) Don't be deluded in the misguided belief that your happiness depends upon the absolute possession of the object of your fancy. C) Understand that sexual desire, like hunger and thirst, cannot be permanently satiated. D) Distract yourself from it, whether by sleeping casually with others or by focusing the mind on something else entirely. E) Since the highest good is pleasure and nothing is more pleasuratle than sex, then the good life is the life devoted to the pursuit of sexual consummation. F) Feel free to enjoy sexual pleasure, but don't confuse that with the belief that you will be able to attain true union and become one with the object of your desire, G) Don't forget the fact that the person you fancy is just another human being, full of flaws and defects that, sooner or later, will annoy and irritate you. -H) Instead of enjoying sexual pleasure, dedicate your life to asceticism and self- denial. The life of true happiness is the life of virtue. 1) Always keep a cache of sexual partners ready in case one relationship doesn't work out. J) Fall in love with a person's soul, not their body. The body, as a physical object, is destined to wither and die, whereas the soul, as the essence of your beloved, is eternal and cannot be affected by the passage of time.

Answer 1

A) Rather than focusing on the passionate fire of lust, find yourself a nice, decent person with whom you get along well. Just as the rain slowly wears out the hardest stone, so friendship and mutual respect can outlast the insincerity of erotic lust.

B) Don't be deluded in the misguided belief that your happiness depends upon the absolute possession of the object of your fancy.

C) Understand that sexual desire, like hunger and thirst, cannot be permanently satiated.

D) Distract yourself from it, whether by sleeping casually with others or by focusing the mind on something else entirely.

F) Feel free to enjoy sexual pleasure, but don't confuse that with the belief that you will be able to attain true union and become one with the object of your desire

G) Don't forget the fact that the person you fancy is just another human being, full of flaws and defects that, sooner or later, will annoy and irritate you.