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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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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
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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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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
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Life alone can rekindle life.
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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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The best path through life is the highway.
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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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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
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