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You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she will hurry back. — Horace

Letter

You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she will hurry back.

In the original Latin

Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret,

Horace
20 BC
★ 3.8
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Man and nature
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Letter
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20 BCClassical antiquity
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Horace
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Current citation
Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 10.
Original citation
Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 10.

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