Act IV, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
“How safe and easy the poor man's life and his humble dwelling! How blind men still are to Heaven's gifts!”
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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
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Pharsalia
Book V, line 527 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
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O vitae tuta facultas pauperis angustique lares! o munera nondum intellecta deum!
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