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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

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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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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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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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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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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There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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What governs men is the fear of truth.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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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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