πείθεται πᾶς ἥδιον ἢ βιάζεται (Dio Cassius, Historiae Romanae 8.36.3) → it's always more pleasant to be persuaded than to be forced
from the passive participle of שָׁמַע and אֵל; heard of God; Shemuel, the name of three Israelites: Samuel, Shemuel.
