“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.
Book I, satire ix, line 59
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
Original: (la) Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.
Book I, satire ix, line 59
“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.
Book I, satire ix, line 59
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
“No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) Suffragist and Women's Rights activist
Solitude of Self (1892)
“Without Obsession, Life Is Nothing”
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
“Life is nothing without friendship.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“Life without labor is crime, and labor without art is brutality.”
John Wesley Hardrick (1891–1968) painter
Said in 1914 during an exhibit at Allen Chapel in Indianapolis; cited in William Edward Taylor, Harriet Garcia Warkel and Margaret Taylor Burroughs, A Shared Heritage, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Cf. John Ruskin: "Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality," from Lectures on Art (1870), lecture III
“Nothing mortals make lasts; nothing the gods make endures forever.”
Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia
An unnamed goddess
The Queen of Attolia (2000)
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
As quoted in Social Networking for Authors: Untapped Possibilities for Wealth (2009) by Michael Volkin, p. 60
2000s, 2009
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang , p. 55.
“Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.”
Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum,
quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Book III, lines 830–831 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)