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Blessed is he who has been able to win knowledge of the causes of things.

— Virgil Georgics (-29)

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

Original text (Latin)

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Notes from Wikiquote

John Dryden's translation | Happy the man, who, studying nature's laws, Thro' known effects can trace the secret cause.

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