It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUSWhat can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUSTherefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSIt is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSThe water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSToo often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUSAnd life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUSO goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSWhat is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
LUCRETIUSWhy dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
LUCRETIUSA falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSNature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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