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What we do not understand we have no right to judge
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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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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Man never knows what he wants he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
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Every man is a priest, even involuntarily his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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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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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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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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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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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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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
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Life alone can rekindle life.
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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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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
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Hope is only the love of life.
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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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The best path through life is the highway.
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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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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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