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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.

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Lucretius
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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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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