asper principio'neque enim mihi fallere mos est' prosequitur labor: annitendum intrare volenti, nec bona censendum, quae Fors infida dedisse atque eadem rapuisse valet, mox celsus ab alto infra te cernes hominum genus, omnia contra experienda manent quam spondet blanda Voluptas.
Hard at first'it is not my way to hold out false hopes'is the toil you must endure. If you seek to enter, you must exert yourself; and you must not reckon as good those things which fickle Fortune can give and can also take away. Soon you will gain the height and look down upon mankind below you. Pleasure makes you smooth promises; from me you will experience the opposite in all respects.
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