“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
Terence, in Heauton Timoroumenos [The Self-Tormentor]
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“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”
Act IV, scene 6, line 1 (805).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
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