“Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.”

—  Charles de Gaulle

La difficulté attire l'homme de caractère, car c'est en l'étreignant qu'il se réalise lui-même.
in Mémoires de guerre.
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