“Do not think that by avoiding grand passions you are missing the delights of Venus... Lovers' passion is storm-tossed, even in the moment of fruition, by waves of delusion and incertitude.”
— Lucretius 99 – 55 BCE via R. E. Latham
(Titus Carus)
from De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
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