“Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven.”

— Pierre Corneille

Faites votre devoir, et laissez faire aux dieux.
Le vieil Horace, act II, scene viii.
Horace (1639)

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Faites votre devoir, et laissez faire aux dieux.

Horace (1639)

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French tragedian 1606–1684

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