Helps Achieve Perfection

Famous quotes containing the words helps, achieve and/or perfection:

“The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.”
—Harriet Rosenstein (b. 1932)

“Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.”
—Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)