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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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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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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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
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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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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
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To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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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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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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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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