“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Life has given nothing to mortals without great labor.”

—  Horace , book Satires

Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
Original: (la) Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.

Book I, satire ix, line 59

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