Quote: So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: The best path through life is the highway. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: Common sense is calculation applied to life. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: 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. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: 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. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: 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. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: 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. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: 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. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: To marry unequally is to suffer equally. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]
Quote: Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. [Henri-Frederic Amiel]