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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we shou...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we shou...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
OSCAR WILDE Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
EPICURUS About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I...
SUE GRAFTON Why is it that good times aren't permitted to last? Especially when we have put in so much time and ...
LESLIE W.P. GARLAND The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I've heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness
MEREDITH DURAN I wanted nothing for free.
Nothing came for free at our place anyway.
MARKUS ZUSAK Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. -Henri Frederic Amiel.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Drinking for thirst is sufficient.
MADELYN FERNSTROM There is a first time for everything and last for nothing.
VIKRANT PARSAI The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content mer...
ARTHUR SMITH He wasn't used to people saying no, and Eby felt sorry for him, the way she'd always felt sorry for ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Have & Have Not
SAVAN SOLANKI In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everyth...
TIM O'BRIEN It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that NEIL GAIMAN For me, it is sufficient to improve.
JIM GENOVESE One tongue is sufficient for a woman
JOHN MILTON Expect nothing, aspire for EVERYTHING
N. S. COLE Something is everything for nothing and now everyone is ready to do anything to achieve nothing.
VIKRANT PARSAI If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know)...
ANTHONY HOPE There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good fo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner...
FRANCIS QUARLES I knew everything happened for a reason. I just wished the reason would hurry up and make itself kno...
CHRISTINA LAUREN We talk so much yet we have nothing to say.
JUSTIN WETCH Cleverness is not wisdom.
EURIPIDES Cleverness is not wisdom
EURIPIDES Everything- everything was for Dorian, for his friend. For himself, he had nothing left to lose. He ...
SARAH J. MAAS I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.
MARY J. BLIGE In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
ANTONIO PORCHIA Hopefully, it'll be another pitch that's a lot more usable for him. It can be a serviceable pitch, s...
RICH DUBEE God's grace is sufficient for us to overcome any situation,
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
MADAME SWETCHINE Time waits for nothing,no one and everything.
MUSIQ SOULCHILD We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
ANNE SOPHIE SWETCHINE For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
NANCY GIBBS For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
NANCY GIBBS In the eyes of God, we're all perfect and we all have unlimited capacity to express brilliantly. I s...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my ...
BAT FOR LASHES There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all ...
BAT FOR LASHES I love dressing up.
BAT FOR LASHES I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated b...
BAT FOR LASHES I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing ver...
BAT FOR LASHES The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you d...
BAT FOR LASHES I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bo...
BAT FOR LASHES The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'...
BAT FOR LASHES 'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it...
BAT FOR LASHES It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a...
BAT FOR LASHES I want to add something worthwhile rather than just chucking loads of stuff into the world. I don...
BAT FOR LASHES I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And...
BAT FOR LASHES I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way....
BAT FOR LASHES There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love P...
BAT FOR LASHES An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that...
BAT FOR LASHES To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delv...
BAT FOR LASHES I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very u...
BAT FOR LASHES I don't like to be too submissive in the way I dress. I like quite boyish things, so I hardly ev...
BAT FOR LASHES I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would ac...
BAT FOR LASHES In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
BAT FOR LASHES I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes f...
BAT FOR LASHES I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people ...
BAT FOR LASHES We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic sou...
BAT FOR LASHES I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I w...
BAT FOR LASHES I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-g...
BAT FOR LASHES When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled a...
BAT FOR LASHES I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, '...
BAT FOR LASHES I quite like androgyny.
BAT FOR LASHES All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a s...
BAT FOR LASHES ... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters...
UNIX FOR DUMMIES In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediat...
BAT FOR LASHES My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could, in th...
BAT FOR LASHES When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet ground...
BAT FOR LASHES The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't oth...
BAT FOR LASHES When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is whe...
BAT FOR LASHES Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I've had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality...
BAT FOR LASHES Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like ...
BAT FOR LASHES When people run in circles it's a very very... mad world.
TEARS FOR FEARS When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I hav...
BAT FOR LASHES Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and ...
BAT FOR LASHES I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get rea...
BAT FOR LASHES There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things t...
BAT FOR LASHES I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really li...
BAT FOR LASHES I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolut...
BAT FOR LASHES Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry ...
BAT FOR LASHES The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with con...
BAT FOR LASHES I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. ...
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
AMIEL By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
BARBARA AMIEL I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring ...
BARBARA AMIEL I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on t...
BARBARA AMIEL In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
BARBARA AMIEL It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was disto...
BARBARA AMIEL Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
BARBARA AMIEL Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
BARBARA AMIEL Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. ...
BARBARA AMIEL Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if ...
BARBARA AMIEL The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It r...
BARBARA AMIEL The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
BARBARA AMIEL There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military...
BARBARA AMIEL It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
BARBARA AMIEL There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or w...
BARBARA AMIEL When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
BARBARA AMIEL Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expe...
BARBARA AMIEL Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political ...
BARBARA AMIEL They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
BARBARA AMIEL All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
BARBARA AMIEL The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benef...
BARBARA AMIEL The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
BARBARA AMIEL When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling o...
BARBARA AMIEL Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
BARBARA AMIEL I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on telev...
BARBARA AMIEL But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the speakin...
BARBARA AMIEL Among the barbarians as well is the People's Republic of China with a gulag all of its own - far, fa...
BARBARA AMIEL Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
BARBARA AMIEL Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans...
BARBARA AMIEL To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
HENRI AMIEL Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surren...
HENRI AMIEL A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith ensla...
HENRI AMIEL I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
HENRI AMIEL Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent t...
HENRI AMIEL Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
HENRI AMIEL For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil...
HENRI AMIEL Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI AMIEL Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self comman...
HENRI AMIEL We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI AMIEL Common sense is calculation applied to life.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. -Henri Frederic Amiel.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in th...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling ...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflect...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Oh, order! Material order, intellectual order, moral order! What a comfort and strength, and what an...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surren...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, ...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be ot...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salva...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The only substance properly so called is the soul.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent t...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intellige...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and al...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which bel...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line a...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liber...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The best path through life is the highway.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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 So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the ...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaff...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Accept life, and you must accept regret.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self comman...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calcu...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power,...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what
is impossible for talent is genius...
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL ...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to ...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summ...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Hope is only the love of life.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of sufferin...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulnes...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Order is power.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line a...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else...
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 Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-b...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL We only understand that which already is within us.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL True humility is contentment.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you ...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and le...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling...
HENRI FREDERICK AMIEL Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock o...
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her...
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL Analysis kills spontaneity.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare ...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are ...
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL All appears to change when we change.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by refl...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is
impossible with talent is genius.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of h...
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of whic...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue,...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue,...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL A belief is not true because it is useful
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for others is genius.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of t...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat: that is progress.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL We only understand that which already within us.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults /a gigantic scaffo...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calcu...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Its way of suffering is the witness which a soul bares to itself.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides
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 Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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