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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
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