The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. 613
I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed. 704
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. 703
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price. 2.24K
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. 725
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. 609
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. 2.2K
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. 812
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. 616
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. 839
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. 706
