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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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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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
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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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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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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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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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
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Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.
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It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
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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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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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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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The best path through life is the highway.
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The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
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