“Learn fortitude and toil from me, my son,
Ache of true toil. Good fortune learn from others.”

—  Virgil , Aeneid

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Lines 435–436 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)

Original

Disce, puer, virtutem ex me verumque laborem, Fortunam ex aliis.

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