Originally Posted by South Bound
Thought it was 'hard work' not hardship...?
You can trasnslate it either way, or indeed a number of others; English has a number of ways of getting the gist of the idea across.
I was quite amused the first time I saw the RAF Regt motto... More so when I saw the SERE Sqn motto at Cranditz which goes, IIRC, "hodie hic, cras abiere".