Ovid:

Either do not attempt at all, or else accomplish.

— Ovid Ancient

Metamorphoses

Ars Amatoria, Book 1, line 389

c. 2 CE

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"If you wish to be loved, love."

"Blanda truces animos fertur lenire catenas."

"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."

"Cedere non semper turpe est."

"Et facere et pati fortia Romanum est."