“We classify things as easy or difficult, but this is not right, tasks should be classified as possible or impossible and the possible ones can be easy or hard”
“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.”
“A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.”
“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.”
“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”