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Like a path in autumn: no sooner is it cleared than it is once again littered with fallen leaves.
The Zurau Aphorisms (15)
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance
Difficulties are things that show what men are
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won
We can complain that rose bushes have thorns, or we can rejoice that thorn bushes have roses
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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