Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret et mala perrum… - Horace

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Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret
et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix.
(Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she'll come right back,
Victorious over your ignorant confident scorn.)

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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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Mere grace is not enough: a play should thrill
The hearer's soul, and move it at its will.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio.

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