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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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Henri-Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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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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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute for feeling, except in the infinite for the soul, except in the divine.
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Life alone can rekindle life.
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Hope is only the love of life.
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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
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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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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
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To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
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I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world all is strange to me I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?
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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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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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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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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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