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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
Science
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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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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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When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
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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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It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
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I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant
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Man never knows what he wants he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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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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Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.
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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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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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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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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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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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