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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
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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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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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
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Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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