It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
More Lucretius Quotes
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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