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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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Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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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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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.
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Hope is only the love of life.
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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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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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