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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
Lucretius
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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