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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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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Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
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The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.
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To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
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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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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
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What we do not understand we have no right to judge
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
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True humility is contentment.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
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