You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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.
LucretiusThe old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
Lucretius