It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
More Lucretius Quotes
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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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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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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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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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