Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)
ChanakyaThe one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
ChanakyaA wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
Chanakya