“Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.” The Prince

He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie. Don Quixote

“They knew everything, the Brahmans and their holy books, they knew everything, they had taken care of everything and of more than everything, the creation of the world, the origin of speech, of food, of inhaling, of exhaling, the arrangement of the senses, the acts of the gods, they knew infinitely much—but was it valuable to know all of this, not knowing that one and only thing, the most important thing, the solely important thing?” Siddhartha

Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease. Beyond Good and Evil