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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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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
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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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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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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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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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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Joy is the vital air of the soul.
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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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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
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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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The best path through life is the highway.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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