Virgil (c. 70-19 BCE)
“That man has all the luck who can understand what makes the world
tick, who has crushed underfoot his fears about
what’s laid out in store for him and stilled the roar of Hell’s esurient river.”
- From Virgil’s Georgics (Book 2, approximately between lines 490-495), translated by Peter Fallon (The Gallery Press, 2004, and later Oxford World Classics, 2006, 2009).
