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Do not try to find out-we're forbidden to know-what end the gods may bestow on me or you. — Horace

Poem

Do not try to find out-we're forbidden to know-what end the gods may bestow on me or you.

In the original Latin

Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi, finem di dederint.

Horace
Odes · 23 BC
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Topic
FateGod and man
Statement type
Advice
Medium
Poem
Time
23 BCClassical antiquity
Person
Horace
Provenance
Current citation
Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, no. 11.
Original citation
Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 1, no. 11.

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