On where the difficulty accumulates
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
Seneca reverses the order everyone assumes. The difficulty is not sitting inside the task, waiting; a good deal of it accumulates in the time between noticing the task and beginning it.
This is not a claim that hard things are easy. It is a claim about where one particular weight comes from — the one that grows heavier the longer a thing is left, and that has nothing to do with the work itself.