Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Lucretius144 quotes“Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.”
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LucretiusLucretius All life is a struggle in the dark.
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LucretiusLucretius 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.
LucretiusLucretius Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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