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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

Lucretius

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
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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Await Built Old Way
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion

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