Virgil — "The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or…"
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
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"Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. / Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas."
"Spes sibi quisque."
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About Virgil (70-19 BCE)
Roman poet of the Augustan age whose Aeneid is the founding national epic of Rome and Western literature's most-imitated hexameter poem. Closely associated with Ovid (younger Augustan poet of Metamorphoses) and Horace (third Augustan-era major poet). For an intellectual contrast, see Lucan, Roman poet (39-65 CE) of the Pharsalia — Lucan's Pharsalia explicitly rejected Virgilian Augustan epic by writing a civil-war epic that refused divine machinery and treated Roman empire as tragedy rather than destiny. Lucan's Pharsalia is a 60-years-later rebuke of the Aeneid's imperial theology — civil war as crime instead of providence.