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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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 best path through life is the highway.
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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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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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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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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.
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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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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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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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