One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom. The Castle

To seek what is impossible is madness: and it is impossible that the bad should not do something of this kind. Book V

This ordered universe, which is the same for all, was not created by any one of the gods or by man, but always was, is, and shall be, an ever-living Flame that is first kindled and then quenched in turn. [The universe bursts forth and then is reabsorbed, yet its Source is ever-living, like a Sun that never sets] and who can hide from that which never sets? [That eternal Intelligence in man] is forever beyond change; Fragments

“There is an old saying that "by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!” Eat That Frog!