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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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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The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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Man never knows what he wants he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
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Hope is only the love of life.
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
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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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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
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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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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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Every man is a priest, even involuntarily his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
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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 out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
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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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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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