Pronaque cum spectent animalia cetera terram,

os homini sublime dedit caelumque videre

iussit et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus

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While other animals look downwards at the ground

he gave human beings an upturned aspect,

commanding them to look towards heaven,

and, upright, raise their face to the stars.

- Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book I, lines 85-86