Tao Te Ching

“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 99 – 55 BCE
(Titus Carus)
from De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)