πείθεται πᾶς ἥδιον ἢ βιάζεται (Dio Cassius, Historiae Romanae 8.36.3) → it's always more pleasant to be persuaded than to be forced
εἰς τὸ ἄνω, ἄψ, ἀνόπιν, ἔμπαλιν, ἀνάπαλιν, εἰσοπίσω