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“One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.”

Should Artist Difficult Enemy Treats Difficulty

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“If you are going to set out to develop mystical powers to impress your friends and do other things to your enemies, the difficulty with it is that you will not be moving towards enlightenment.”

Ifs Moving Enemy Buddhism Enlightenment Difficulty Buddhist Impress Mystical Etiquette

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius might furnish the subject of a sincere and ample panegyric. The wisdom of his laws and the success of his arms rendered his administration respectable in the eyes both of his subjects and of his enemies. He loved and practised the virtues of domestic life, which seldom hold their residence in the palaces of kings.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

“One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.”

Knows Should Art War Done Enemy Friends Ought Art Is Difficulty Civil War Concealed

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.”

Source: Essays

“With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.”

Force Enemy Difficulty Beaten

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.”

Situation Enemy Virtue Victory Degrees Difficulty Distance Superiors Terrain

Author:Sun Tzu

“Jesus came to save us, not just from politics, enemies, challenges, or difficulties.”

Jesus Challenges Enemy Difficulty

Author:Max Lucado

“Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.”

Culture Enemy Imagine Europe Difficulty Russia Nato

Author:Vladimir Putin

“If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.”

Ifs Writing Doe Artist Enemy Talent Wall Overcoming Difficulty Suicide Soldier Fallen Contemplating Reflecting Gallery Fling Trenches Miners Yawning Craters

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.”