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Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands
for the whole.
[Lat., Incipe quidquid read more
Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands
for the whole.
[Lat., Incipe quidquid agas: pro toto est prima operis pars.]
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.
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.
A good beginning makes a good end.
A good beginning makes a good end.
The beginnings of all things are small.
[Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]
The beginnings of all things are small.
[Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one
on which depends the rest read more
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one
on which depends the rest of our days.
[Fr., Le premier pas, mon fils, que l'on fait dans le monde,
Est celui dont depend le reste de nos jours.]
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
