There is nothing though never so hard Il n'y a rien si difficile but by labour it may be made easie.
They believed with Quintilian that "Longum et difficile iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla.
As for any particular commemorations, I call to mind what Cicero said when he gave general thanks, Difficile non aliquem, ingratum quenquam praeterire.
Hoc erat difficile cum paucī sine vulneribus essent», this was difficult, since only a few were without wounds.
Your picture is incomplete without them, et il sera toujours très-difficile de gouverner sans eux.
The explication which My Lord of Worcester treats with so much contempt, is nevertheless countenanced by authority which I find quoted by the learned Baxter in his edition of Horace: 'Difficile est propriè communia dicere, h.