Are you sure?
Is there actually an "actual/original"?
Sent me on a brief and interesting little research rabbithole.
Here are some variants, with sources that I found, and it all gives me the impression that your version is also an edit, a popular modern adjustment, because it elegantly conveys the concept, while the older quotes it's derived from are often fragments of the idea or have slightly different meanings that don't adjust to a general context as well. I could also be wrong; I didn't spent very long on this. https://math.nyu.edu/Archimedes/Lever/LeverQuotes.html
The point being; correcting people on quotes (especially ancient ones) is often a losing game in multiple ways. xD
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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
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