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.
LUCRETIUSHow many evils have flowed from religion.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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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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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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