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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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Henri-Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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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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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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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
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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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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
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The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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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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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world all is strange to me I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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