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The best path through life is the highway.
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
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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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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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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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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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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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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True humility is contentment.
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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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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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to 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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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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