It is through hard work and sacrifice that you provide yourself with the means wherewith to discharge your public duties

It is through hard work and sacrifice that you provide yourself with the means wherewith to discharge your public duties and to maintain your affairs in general. Isocrates. Antidosis. Speech 15. Section 146.

Image Relief depicting a laborer and shopkeeper, Roman, 3rd century CE, at the Royal Ontario Museum In Toronto, Canada.