It is easy to go down to Hell. Night and day the gates of murky Dis are open, but to go back to where you were and escape to the breeze again, that is work, that is labor.
--Virgil (70-19 B.C.), The Aeneid
Facilis descensus Averni. Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis, Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hoc labor est.
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