Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.