Expel nature with a pitchfork, but every time it will retur… - Horace

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Expel nature with a pitchfork, but every time it will return as conqueress to stealthily break through bilious aversions.

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin.

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Native Name: Q. Horatius Flaccus

Alternative Names: Quintus Horatius Flaccus • Horatius • Horatius Flaccus

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Ovid Virgil Juvenal Lucretius Cicero

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more brave in despising gold as yet undiscovered, and so best situated while hidden in the earth, than in forcing it out for the uses of mankind, with a hand ready to make depredations on everything that is sacred.

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Expel nature with a pitchfork, but every time it will return as conqueress to stealthily break through bilious aversions. - Horace

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