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• Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

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  Heaven, Suffering, Earth

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• We only understand that which already is within us.

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• Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

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  Life Lesson, Liberty, Life Is

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• In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

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  Past, Priestesses, Pious

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• A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

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  Men, Understanding

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• Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

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  Faith, Society, This Society

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• The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

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  Mind, Despair, Levity

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• Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.

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  Roots, Religion, Enthusiasm

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• To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

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  Life, Substance, Tissues

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

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  Marriage, Suffering

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• 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 the song.

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  Song, Teacher, Art

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• Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for truth, who rebels against personal discipline, who hates disinterested thought and the idea of self-education. Wisdom offends him, because it rouses in him disturbance and confusion, and because he will not see himself as he is.

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  Hate, Men, Animal

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• Life alone can rekindle life.

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  Chaos

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• Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

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  Life, Divine, Eternal

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• Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

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  Love, Persistence, Self

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• The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

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  Health, Men, Medical Knowledge

  Journal Intime 22 August (1873)

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• The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship.

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  Religious, Light, Hands

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

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• Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

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  Mean, Light, Self

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• The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

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  Real, Elements, Idealism

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

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  Animal, Men, Self

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• I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.

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  Heart, Rivers, Issues

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

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  Humanity, Majority, Species

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• An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

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  Funny, Truth, Mistake

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• 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.

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  Passion, Men, Iron

  Entry for December 17, 1856. "Journal Intime". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1882.

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