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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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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We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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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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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.
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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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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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Every situation is an equilibrium of forces every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
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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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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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