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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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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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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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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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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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