It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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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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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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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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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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It’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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