Even if strength fail, boldness at least will Deserve praise: in great endeavors even to… — Propertius
Even if strength fail, boldness at least will Deserve praise: in great endeavors even to have Had the will is enough.
In the original Latin
Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.
15 BC
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Propertius. Elegies, translated by G. P. Goold. Harvard University Press, 1990, bk. 2, no. 10.
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Propertius. ἐλεγείᾱ [Elegies]. c. 40 BC, bk. 2, no. 10.