Dear developers,
Currently the latin motto "Ad astra per aspera" is translated as "to the
stars by aspiration", which sounds weird.
The literal translation from Wikipedia [1] would be "through hardships
to the stars", but here I'm proposing a rewording by A. J. Finn, in "The
Woman in the Window: A Novel" (cited in Wikipedia too), which I like
more: "Through adversity to the stars":
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Index: games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
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RCS file: /cvs/src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2,v
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.49 fortunes2
--- games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 25 Nov 2017 05:55:40 -0000 1.49
+++ games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 2 Feb 2019 16:50:16 -0000
@@ -7694,7 +7694,7 @@ Assume true for N, prove for N+1:
it is true for all N+1 floors.
QED.
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-Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars by aspiration.)
+Ad astra per aspera. (Through adversity to the stars.)
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Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit.
[Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]
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Just my 2 cents.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_aspera_ad_astra
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