Horace

You can throw nature out with a pitchfork, but it always comes back,
and breaking in unexpectedly is victorious over your perverse contempt.

http://liberlocorumcommunium.blogspot.com/2010/07/horace-on-ontological-priority-of-ends.html

http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/HoraceEpistlesBkIEpX.htm

Drive Nature off with a pitchfork, she’ll still press back,

And secretly burst in triumph through your sad disdain.