naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.

You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.

Notes

You must take the basic nature of something into account. - Horace, Epistles, Book I, epistle iv, line 24.

Words

• tamen – but, for all that, however, nevertheless, nothwithstanding, still, yet
• usque – all the way, even, up to

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