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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
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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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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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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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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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 spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
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Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.
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Pay bad people with your goodness fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
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Joy is the vital air of the soul.
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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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