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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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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that all other studies bring us back to this study.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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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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Joy is the vital air of the soul.
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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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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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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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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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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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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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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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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