Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole.
Incipe quidquid agas: pro toto est prima operis pars.
More quotes by Ausonius
Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.
His monuments decay, and death comes even to his marbles and his names.
It is outrageous that a strictly abstemious reader should sit in judgement on a poet a little drunk.
O maid, while youth is with the rose and thee,
Pluck thou the rose: life is as swift for thee.
Attribution
Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Ausonius (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.