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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
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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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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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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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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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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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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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