Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
"The Lover and the Beloved", p. 1.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 39e
Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
"The Lover and the Beloved", p. 1.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
“Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.”
Nil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possit.
Act IV, scene 2, line 8 (675).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
“As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”
Thomas Traherne (1636–1674) English poet
First Century, sect. 8.
Centuries of Meditations
“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”
Act IV, scene 6, line 1 (805).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
Terence, in Heauton Timoroumenos [The Self-Tormentor]
Misattributed
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
The Art of Persuasion
“Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist
I'm not Stiller (1955)
“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice