What is told in the ear, is often heard a hundred miles off.
—Chinese.
501
'Tis easy for any man who has his foot unentangled by sufferings, both to exhort and to admonish him that is in difficulties.
—Aeschylus.
502
If you take things easy when you ought to be doing your best work, you will probably have to keep hard at work when you might be taking it easy.
503
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
—From the German.