[L]ife has no smooth road for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; per aspera ad astra; over steep ways to the stars.
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Normally quoted omitting the word "other" before "legend" [motto]. The "legend" of the Tenth Class was nec aspera terrent; frightened by no rough things (i.e. difficulties, adversities).