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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete 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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Literary Critic
Philosopher
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Henri-Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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Knowledge
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Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
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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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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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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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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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