It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only

It was a difficult and arduous task that he accepted without fanfare.

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

One must astonish the bourgeois.