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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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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Henri-Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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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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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
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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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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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Pay bad people with your goodness fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
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There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.
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