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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.
Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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