nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus - Horace

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nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus

Horace

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work-hard

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About Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin.

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Native Name: Q. Horatius Flaccus

Alternative Names: Quintus Horatius Flaccus • Horatius • Horatius Flaccus

Originators like Horace:

Many words shall revive, which now have fallen off; and many which are now in esteem shall fall off,

Quod adest memento
componere aequus.

If you can realistically render
a cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to paint
a sailor in the midst of a shipwreck?