78 Quotations by Henri Frederic Amiel
- 61. To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent ...

- 62. To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the ...

- 63. To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will ...

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

- 65. To live we must conquer incessantly; we must have the courage to be happy.

- 66. To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

- 67. To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

- 68. To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned and sustained by a supreme power, ...

- 69. Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summ ...

- 70. Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

- 71. We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

- 72. We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

- 73. What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo ...

- 74. Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God ...

- 75. Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.

- 76. Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of ...

- 77. Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intellige ...

- 78. Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-b ...

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