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Hope is only the love of life.
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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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.
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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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Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
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The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
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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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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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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
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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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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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