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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
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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Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
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Pay bad people with your goodness fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
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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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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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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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Life alone can rekindle life.
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A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
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Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.
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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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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
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I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.
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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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