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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.
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The best path through life is the highway.
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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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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words too late ringing in our ears.
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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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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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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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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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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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