“Never trust her at any time, when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.”

—  Lucretius

Book II, lines 557–559 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)

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Infidi maris insidis virisque dolumque ut vitare velint, neve ullo tempore credant subdola cum ridet placidi pellacia ponti.

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