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Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes


In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

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.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

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.

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.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

Order is power.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

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.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.