Contentment (Translation of William Cranston Lawton)

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Horace (65–8 B.C.) | Italian | Published: An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917

Not by a spot that commands some outlook wide on the waters,—
Never our nature, but only the sky do we change as we travel. Toilsome idleness wears us out. On wagon and shipboard Comfort it is that we seek; yet that which you seek, it is with you,
Even in Ulubr, if you lack not contentment of spirit. 30