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De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things], I. 55 [tr. Latham (1951)] - Lucretius | WIST Quotations
Look at a man in the midst of doubt and danger, and you will lean in his hour of adversity what he really is. It is then that true utterances are wrung from the recesses of his breast. The mask is torn off; the reality remains.