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Nescia mens hominum fati sortisque futurae,
Et servare modum, rebus sublata secundis!
--
O impotence of man's frail mind To fate and to the future blind, Presumptuous and o'erweening still When Fortune follows at its will!
--
Lines 501-502 (translated by John Conington)

 
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