“I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.”

—  Horace , book Epistles

Book I, epistle i, line 14
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)

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Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri, quo me cumque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes.

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