It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
LUCRETIUSIt’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.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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