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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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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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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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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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel
[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that all other studies bring us back to this study.
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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The best path through life is the highway.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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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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Man never knows what he wants he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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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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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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