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.
LUCRETIUSTo none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSThe first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
LUCRETIUSThe nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LUCRETIUSDeath is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUSNever trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUSThere can be no centre in infinity.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods.
LUCRETIUSGently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUSFrom the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUSMen conceal the past scenes of their lives.
LUCRETIUSOut beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
LUCRETIUSWhen 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.
LUCRETIUSWe, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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