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Nil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possiet.
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Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more Difficile Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle.


— Canto I, line 51.

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Difficile est saturam non scribere. It is difficult not to write satire.


— Satirae, no.1, l.30.

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Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem.


— It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-cherished love.
LXXVI

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Difficile est saturam non scribere.

juvenal

— It is difficult not to write satire.
I, line 30.

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Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem.


— It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-cherished love.
— LXXVI

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Difficile est proprie communia dicere.


— It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.
— Line 128.

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Difficile est saturam non scribere.


— It is difficult not to write satire.
— I, line 30.

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Difficile est tristi fingere mente iocum.


— 'Tis hard to feign merriment when the heart is sad.
— Bk. 3, no. 6, line 34

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Qu'il est Difficile d'e"  tre content de quelqu'un! How difficult it is to be happy with someone!


— 1688  Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Du c½ur', no.65.

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La critique est aisée, et l'art est Difficile.


— Criticism is easy, and art is difficult.
— Glorieux, II, 5, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 150.

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Nil tam Difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possiet.

terence

— Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.Act IV, scene 2, line 8 (675).

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Il n'est pas Difficile de nourrir des pensées admirables lorsque les étoiles sont présentes.

marguerite yourcenar

— It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present.

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Nil tam Difficile quin quærendo investigari possiet.

terence

— Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
— Terence, Heauton timoroumenos, IV, 2, 8. Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648), No. 1009, Seek and Find.

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Il est plus facile d'être amant que mari, par la raison qu'il est plus Difficile d'avoir de l'esprit tous les jours que de dire de jolies choses de temps en temps.

honoré de balzac

— It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time.Part I, Meditation V: Of the Predestined, aphorism LXIX

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Je te le déclare, en mon âme et conscience, la conquête du pouvoir ou d'une grande renommée littéraire me paraissait un triomphe moins Difficile à obtenir qu'un succès auprès d'une femme de haut rang, jeune, spirituelle et gracieuse.

honoré de balzac

— I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

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Le monde offre énormément d’énigmes dont le mot paraît Difficile à trouver. Il y a des intrigues multipliées.

honoré de balzac

— Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.Part I, ch. IV

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Je ne conçois guère (mon cerveau serait-il un miroir ensorcelé?) un type de Beauté où il n'y ait du Malheur. Appuyé sur d'autres diraient: obsédé par ces idées, on conçoit qu'il me serait Difficile de en pas conclure que le plus parfait type de Beauté virile est Satan, à la manière de Milton.

Charles Baudelaire

— I can scarcely conceive (would my brain be a spellbound mirror?) a type of beauty without unhappiness. Supported by — others would say, obsessed by — these notions, one may conceive it would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, — as rendered by Milton.XVI

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Il est plus Difficile de s’empêcher d’être gouverné que de gouverner les autres.

françois de la rochefoucauld

— It is more difficult to avoid being ruled than to rule others.Maxim 151.

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Il est plus Difficile de dissimuler les sentiments que l'on a que de feindre ceux que l'on n'a pas.

françois de la rochefoucauld

— It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.
Maxim 56 from the posthumously published 1693 edition of the Maximes.

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Nil tam Difficile quin quærendo investigari possiet.

Robert Herrick

— Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
— Terence, Heauton timoroumenos, IV, 2, 8. Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648), No. 1009, Seek and Find.

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Difficile est proprie communia dicere.

horace

— It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.
Line 128.

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