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Henri Frédéric Amiel Quotes

Henri Frédéric Amiel

Swiss philosopher and writer

Nationality: Swiss
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Type: Writer
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Birth: 1821-1881
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We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
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Common sense is calculation applied to 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.
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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the s
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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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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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
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Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
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To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
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Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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