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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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
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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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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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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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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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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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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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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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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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We only understand that which already is within us.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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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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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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Life alone can rekindle life.
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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
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