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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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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute for feeling, except in the infinite for the soul, except in the divine.
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To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
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The best path through life is the highway.
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To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
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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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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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True humility is contentment.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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