Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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.

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 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 ...

Henri Frederic Amiel

The best path through life is the highway.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Henri Frederic Amiel
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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Henri Frederic Amiel