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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the
evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
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Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the
evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
[Lat., Principiis obsta: sero medicina paratur,
Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.]
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
The last is inferior to the first.
[Lat., Coepisti melius quam read more
Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
The last is inferior to the first.
[Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
