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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Age: 59 †
Born: 1821
Born: September 27
Died: 1881
Died: May 11
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War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world all is strange to me I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?
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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute for feeling, except in the infinite for the soul, except in the divine.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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