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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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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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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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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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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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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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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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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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There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.
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Never to tire, never to grow cold to be patient, sympathetic, tender to look for the budding flower and the opening heart to hope always like God, to love always--this is duty.
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