It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.