An idea from Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Picture trying with everything you have while bad luck blocks every result. Your will has lost nothing. Like a jewel, “it would still shine by its own light, as a thing which has its whole value in itself.” Whether it succeeds doesn’t change its worth.

From Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

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