Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

He that hopes no good, fears no ill.

Teach you children poetry, it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

No attention is paid to the blame or praise that others may give. It does not seek the admiration or the appreciation of the listeners.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune, it is a certain air which distinguishes us and seems to destine us for great things, it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

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