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Lucretius

“Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.”

Lucretius, Of The Nature of Things
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Of The Nature of Things Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius
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