Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

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“Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.” is a Latin phrase. Analogous translated it means: “ That one is fortunate, who was able to understand the basis of the world.”.

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The Roman poet Virgil tells, that the merit of the Roman philosopher Lucretius would have been, that he had freed the humans of the fear for the deities and the death by his atom doctrine. But after that he also praises the knowledge of the deities, who would be particularly important ashore: “Fortunatis et ille deus qui novit agrestis.” (“Also that one is fortunate, who knows the countrified deities.”).