When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
Honore de BalzacEmulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
Honore de BalzacA courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
Honore de Balzac