“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”
“If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.”
“Solitude must be accepted with all its difficulties.”
“You will always face difficulties in prayer. Just accept it.”
“Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.”
“Sometimes history is just an excuse for incompetence at getting along with each other.”