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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
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Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.
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The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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