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Horace | 65–8 BC) | Italian | Published: Unknown

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 Ulubræ, if you lack not contentment of spirit.