Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LUCRETIUSEpicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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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.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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