Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Leon Trotsky
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent. Ovid
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration nay, it is a very easy matter but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome. Plutarch
You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again. Anne Brontë
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. François de La Rochefoucauld
It is an easy matter for a stingy man to get rich -- but what's the use? American Proverb