So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril and in adversity to discern 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 reality remains.
Titus Lucretius Carus
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Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of anothers death.
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Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.
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