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.
LUCRETIUSFalling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUSGently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUSFrom the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUSEpicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
LUCRETIUSPleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUSNever trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSThose vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
LUCRETIUSSuch are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUSThe drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUSFear 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.
LUCRETIUSYou alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUSLife is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSWe cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
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