Meaning of “He who would achieve much must sacrifice much.”

The Life of Reason; the line appears in Santayana’s analysis of ideas, activity, and sustained direction.

The Art of Money Getting, in Barnum’s discussion of thorough work and business effort.

Traditional English moral associated with the fable; wording is later than the ancient Greek tradition.

Poor Richard’s Almanack; a compact maxim about cumulative effort.

Poor Richard’s Almanack; the maxim appears in Franklin’s collected Poor Richard material.

Discourses of Epictetus, Book II, Chapter XVIII, “How we should struggle against appearances,” George Long translation; 1877 George Bell & Sons witness on Wikisource, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #10661. This short catalog record is an excerpt of Long’s longer clause “Generally then if you would make any thing a habit, do it”; this collection lightly normalizes “any thing” to “anything.”