Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.
Source: Works and Days, Line 293.
-- Hesiod, (Jan 0 c. 700-????), Greek poet; The Father of Greek Didactic Poetry wrote Works and Days, Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles.