Agents are getting their hands on serious amounts of money - more than ?30 million (US$36.6 million) alone on the French market - which is unjustifiable compared to the work carried out, and dubious as to where that money is heading.


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The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intellige...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and al...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which bel...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line a...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other...
EDWARD FREDERIC BENSON
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liber...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
The best path through life is the highway.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the ...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaff...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.
FREDERIC AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Accept life, and you must accept regret.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self comman...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calcu...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
It takes two for a kiss Only one for a sigh, Twain by twain we marry One by one we die.
FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES
Joy is a partnership, Grief weeps alone, Many guests had Cana; Gethsemane but one.
FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power,...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
FREDERIC R. MARVIN
My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass. [Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois da...
FREDERIC R. MARVIN
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius...
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulnes...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL