Premier Pas

Ce nʹest que le premier pas qui coûte. Pythagoras used to say, “The beginning is half the whole.”

“Incĭpe Dimidium facti est cœpisse.”—Ausonius,

“Dimidium facti, qui cœpit, habet.”—Horace.

⁂ The reverse of these proverbs is: “Cʹest le plus difficile que dʹécorcher la queue.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.