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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.
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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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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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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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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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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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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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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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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What we do not understand we have no right to judge
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There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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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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Every man is a priest, even involuntarily his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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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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