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Aphorisms

Or maybe 'Why take the easy way,
when you can take the hard'.

Translations are tough. The OG in Dutch i made,
is a reversal of a existing Aphorism.
Like a negative, and imo closer to the truth.

'Waarom makkelijk doen, als het moeilijk kan'
 
Aesop [Slave in Greece around 620 and 564 BCE]

When Thales was leaving his house to look at the stars he fell into a ditch; while he was bewailing the fact an old woman remarked to him: "You, O Thales, cannot see what is at your feet and you expect to see what is in the heavens?
 
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