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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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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Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
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War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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