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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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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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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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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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To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
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True humility is contentment.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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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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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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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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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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