"Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition."
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"It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!"
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"Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered."
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"Difficulty is what wakes up the genius."
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"The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much."
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"The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know."
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"Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases."
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"Difficulty shows what men are."
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"When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up."
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"When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?"
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"Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them."
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"Difficulties exist to be surmounted."
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"Where there is no difficulty there is no praise."
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"He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force."
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"But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty."
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"There is no excellency without difficulty."
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"They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit."
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"It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause."
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"There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine."
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"Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be."
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