Livy (c. 59 BCE-17 CE)
“There is, to speak generally, no such thing as work without gain or gain without work: toil and pleasure, though apparent opposites, are indissolubly linked.”
- The History of Rome (Book 5, section 4) by Livy, translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt. New York: Penguin Classics, 2002.