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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.


Barbara Amiel

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HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Tell me what you think you are and I will tell you what you are not
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To know how to suggest is the art of teaching
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL A belief is not true because it is useful
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith ensla...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The unfinished is nothing.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL A philosopher is [one who] aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare ...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of pover...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL We must have the courage to be happy
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way wi...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to th...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying ...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffo...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL all appears to change when we change
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what ...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
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