In fact, this is a western proverb, and there is no specific Chinese translation. At present, the visible examples are "my bear's paw", "my medicine", "my sweetness" and "my honey" with "your arsenic"; Or other sentence patterns such as "A bear's paw, B arsenic", "There is arsenic, my honey", "This is sweet, and there is arsenic".

Yi Shu, a famous writer, also used the phrase "honey of A is arsenic of B".

To talk about history, in fact, this proverb was first written by Lucretius, an ancient Roman poet and philosopher, in On Nature: "Utquod Ali cibus est Ali is fuat acrewennenum", which means "what is food for one person is bitter for another".

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Titus Lucretio carus

Lucretius, whose full name was Titus Lucretius Carus (about 99 ~ 55 years ago), was a poet and philosopher in the late period of Rome and China, and was famous for his philosophical poem Derreum Natura.

He inherited the ancient atomism, especially expounded and developed Epicurus' philosophy. It holds that the existence of matter is eternal, and puts forward the materialistic viewpoint of "nothing is born, nothing is born".

Oppose creationism and think that the universe is infinite and has its natural development process. As long as people understand the real causes of natural phenomena, religious prejudice can disappear.

Recognizing the knowability of the world, I think that feeling is the result of the image emitted by material flow acting on people's senses, and it is the foundation and source of all knowledge, which refutes skepticism.

It is believed that happiness lies in getting rid of the fear of God and death and obtaining spiritual peace and spiritual peace. He is the author of the philosophical poem On Nature.

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