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Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat, caeli scrutantur plagas.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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Iphigenia, from Cicero's De Divinatione, Book II, Ch. 13
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Variant: No one regards the things before his feet, but views with care the regions of the sky.

 
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