One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LUCRETIUSIt’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.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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