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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
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To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
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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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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
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To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
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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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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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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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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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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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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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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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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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