“So hard and huge a task it was to found the Roman people.”

“Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.”

“When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.”

“Tis a hard task this, not to sacrifice manners to wealth.”
Ardua res haec est opibus non tradere mores.

“Social scientists have found that when confronted with either an enormous threat or a huge reward, people tend to focus on the magnitude of the consequence and ignore the probability.”

“And though hard be the task,
"Keep a stiff upper lip."”

“If the soul of Roman Catholicism is to be found in partisan politics, then it's probably time to shutter up the chapel”

“What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.”

“He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.”

“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.”