Henri Fr�d�ric Amiel
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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power
Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being
Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage
Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice, and justice towards the feeble becomes necessarily protection or kindness
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief: it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery
In health there is liberty. Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh; that is to say, over fear: fear of poverty; of suffering, of calumny, of sickness, of isolation, and of death. There is no serious piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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