“The mind wanders unsure, except in that life is lived.”

—  Ennius

As quoted by Aulus Gellius in Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights), Book XIX, Chapter X
Iphigenia

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Incerte errat animus; praeterpropter vitam vivitur.

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