In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past


Henri Frederic Amiel

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Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. -Henri Frederic Amiel.
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, ...
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Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be ot...
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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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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.
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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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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...
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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...
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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will...
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the...
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intellige...
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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her...
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A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal...
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Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
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The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and al...
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Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which bel...
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line a...
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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
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...
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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.
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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the ...
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To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaff...
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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
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We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
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Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self comman...
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calcu...
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing
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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power,...
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The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
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Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius...
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulnes...
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Order is power.
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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line a...
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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else...
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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying ...
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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-b...
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life...
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True humility is contentment.
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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you ...
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Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and le...
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock o...
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To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
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Analysis kills spontaneity.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible with talent is genius.
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To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue,...
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summ...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
Hope is only the love of life.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of sufferin...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling...
HENRI FREDERICK AMIEL
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare ...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
All appears to change when we change.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by refl...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
A belief is not true because it is useful
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
all appears to change when we change
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what ...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
AMIEL
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
AMIEL
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL
Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
BARBARA AMIEL
I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring ...
BARBARA AMIEL
I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on t...
BARBARA AMIEL
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
BARBARA AMIEL
It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was disto...
BARBARA AMIEL
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
BARBARA AMIEL
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
BARBARA AMIEL
Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. ...
BARBARA AMIEL
Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if ...
BARBARA AMIEL
The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It r...
BARBARA AMIEL
The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
BARBARA AMIEL
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military...
BARBARA AMIEL
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
BARBARA AMIEL
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or w...
BARBARA AMIEL
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
BARBARA AMIEL
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expe...
BARBARA AMIEL
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political ...
BARBARA AMIEL
They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
BARBARA AMIEL
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
BARBARA AMIEL
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benef...
BARBARA AMIEL
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
BARBARA AMIEL
When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling o...
BARBARA AMIEL
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
BARBARA AMIEL
I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on telev...
BARBARA AMIEL
But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the speakin...
BARBARA AMIEL