difficulty Quotes

Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions.... ...

Running away from problems is cowardly. Even though suicide means facing death, it's not for a noble reason but to escape difficulty.

Just as bats can't see well in bright daylight, our reason struggles to grasp things that are naturally most obvious.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is... ...

Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old... ...