Had I realized while on Earth," he said, "that Hell was such a delightful place, I should have put more faith in the teachings of religion. As it was, I actually doubted its existence. A foolish error, cherie. I am pleased to say that you have converted me completely." "I, too," observed Mr. Hamilton, helping himself to wine, "was something of an unbeliever in my time, and while never quite an atheist, like my arch-enemy Jefferson, I was still inclined to look upon Satan as merely a myth. Imagine my satisfaction to find him ruling a monarchy! You know I spent the greater part of my earthly existence fighting Mr. Jefferson and his absurd democratic ideas and now look at the damn country! Run by morons!
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but what you ... JR A bully is a coward turned inside out. JR Common sense is calculation applied to life. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to ... FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. -Henri Frederic Amiel. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in th... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To marry unequally is to suffer equally. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. EDWARD FREDERIC BENSON Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling ... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflect... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Oh, order! Material order, intellectual order, moral order! What a comfort and strength, and what an... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surren... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, ... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be ot... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salva... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The only substance properly so called is the soul. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Society lives by faith, and develops by science. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To shun one's cross is to make it heavier. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent t... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL 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