“The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.”
Quoted by Garson Kanin in Atlantic (March 1964).
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Felix Frankfurter 67
American judge 1882–1965Related quotes

“Those who can reach your heart, inevitably leave the sign.”
Original: Chi riesce a raggiungere il tuo cuore, lascia inevitabilmente il segno.
Source: prevale.net

“Evil happens without effort, naturally, inevitably; good is always the product of skill.”
Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalité; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art.
XI: "Éloge du maquillage" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/%C3%89loge_du_maquillage
Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863)

From the letter to Maximiliano de Habsburgo http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/05/28/sem-carta.html in 1864

“Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.”

“A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.”
De Profundis (1897)

Christopher Callahan (October 2000), Music in Medieval Medical Practice: Speculations and Certainties https://symposium.music.org/index.php/40/item/2168-music-in-medieval-medical-practice-speculations-and-certainties#16
De Institutione Musica