From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LucretiusAssuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring.
LucretiusIn the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
Lucretius