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.
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About Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Lucretius Carus was Roman 1st-century bc roman poet and philosopher. Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, which usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things—and somewhat less often as On the Nature of the Universe. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth