Great Throughts Treasury

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Ambition

"One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

"Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

"O, now you weep, and I perceive you feel the dint of pity." - William Shakespeare

"O, our lives' sweetness! That we the pain of death would hourly die rather than die at once!" - William Shakespeare

"Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war." - William Shakespeare

"Follow the saint no further than his doorstep." - Egyptian Proverbs

"But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort." - Elizabeth Gilbert

"One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living." - Emil M. Cioran

"Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"It?s hard to communicate anything exactly and that?s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find." - Gustave Flaubert

"One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

"Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

"O, now you weep, and I perceive you feel the dint of pity." - William Shakespeare

"O, our lives' sweetness! That we the pain of death would hourly die rather than die at once!" - William Shakespeare

"Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war." - William Shakespeare

"Follow the saint no further than his doorstep." - Egyptian Proverbs

"But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort." - Elizabeth Gilbert

"One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living." - Emil M. Cioran

"Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"It?s hard to communicate anything exactly and that?s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find." - Gustave Flaubert