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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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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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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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We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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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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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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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 ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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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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True humility is contentment.
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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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