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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
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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Literary Critic
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Henri-Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Illusion
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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Life alone can rekindle life.
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True humility is contentment.
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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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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Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
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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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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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