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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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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Hope is only the love of life.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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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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It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
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Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.
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To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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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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A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
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To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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