Look round the habitable world! how few Know their own good; or knowing it, pursue. — John Dryden

Look round the habitable world! how few Know their own good; or knowing it, pursue.

In the original Omnibus in terris, quae sunt a Gadibus usque Auroram et Gangen, pauci dinoscere possunt vera bona atque illis multum diversa, remota erroris nebula, quid enim ratione timemus 5aut cupimus?

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Satires of Juvenal · 1693
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Dryden, John. "The Tenth Satire of Juvenal." The Major Works, edited by Keith Walker. Oxford UP, 2003, l. 1.
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Dryden, John, translator. "The Tenth Satyr of Juvenal." The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, written by Juvenal. London: Jacob Tonson, 1693, l. 1.

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