Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.
— Ovid Ancient

Metamorphoses

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Epistulae ex Ponto, Book II, Elegy II, line 27

Date / Period

~10 AD

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Controversial

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16382/16382-h/16382-h.htm

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