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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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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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