May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes,
flumina amem silvasque inglorius.

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Virgil. Georgica [Georgics]. c. 29 BCE, bk. 2.

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Virgil. "The Georgics." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

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