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Great achievement is only reached by the utmost toil.

Non sine supremo magna labore peti.

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II. De Testudine et Aquila ('The Tortoise and the Eagle')

Variants

/ He that wylle haue and gete worship and glorye may not haue hit withoute grete laboure. —William Caxton, "The Tortose and the other Byrdes" (1484)

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"What profit could I ever hope to gain
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Everyone should take his true measure and be content with his own merits, and not claim for himself his neighbour's goods.

It will be better to endure toil however burdensome than to experience when young an ease that is soon to be lost.

Because your parents transmitted strong limbs to you, it does not follow that they added efficiency to your strength.

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