To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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