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Schriftsteller, Philosoph, "Grains de Mil", "Les Etrangères", "Charles le Téméraire" (Schweiz/Frankreich, 1821 - 1881).

Henri Frédéric Amiel · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Henri Frédéric Amiel wäre heute 202 Jahre, 11 Monate, 15 Tage oder 74.129 Tage alt.

Geboren am 27.09.1821 in Genf
Gestorben am 11.05.1881 in Genf
Sternzeichen: ♎ Waage

• For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

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• Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

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• He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature . . . is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

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• He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions - such a man is a mere article of the world's furniture - a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being - an echo, not a voice.

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• He who is silent is forgotten; he who abstains is taken at his word; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow greater becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end.

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• How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.

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• It gives libery and breadth to thought to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy. When the duration of a man's life or of a people's life appears to us as microscopic as that of a fly, and inversely the life of a gnat as infinite as that of a celestial body, with all its dust of nations, we feel ourselves at once very small, and very great; and we are able, as it were, to survey from the height of spheres our own existence and the little whirlwinds which agitate our little world.

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• 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.

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• It is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

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• Justice towards the weak becomes of necessity protection and kindness.

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

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• Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

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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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• Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

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• The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you cannot accept regret.

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• To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

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• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

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• To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

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• Truth is the secret of eloquence and virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.

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• We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy.

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