You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she will ever hurry back, and, ere you know it, will burst through your foolish contempt in triumph.
[Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret,
Et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix.]
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 24ff (1.10.24-25) (20 BC) [tr. Fairclough (Loeb) (1926)]
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Horace - Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 "To Aristius Fuscus," l. 24ff (1.10.24-25) (20 BC) [tr. Fairclough (Loeb) (1926)] | WIST Quotations
You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she will ever hurry back, and, ere you know it, will burst through your foolish contempt in triumph. [Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret, Et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix.WIST Quotations
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