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Henri Frédéric Amiel (French: [amjɛl]; 27 September 1821 – 11 May 1881) was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.

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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Class, Classes, Ignorance, Malady, Moral, Passion

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

Absence, Element, Elements, Single, Soul

Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.

Lasts, Life, Love, Night, Thoughtful

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.

Courage, Dangerous, Grief, Recovery

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Attitude, Man, Men, Positive Thinking, Slave, Surroundings

It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation -- to force the esteem of others -- seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.

Effort, Esteem, Giving, Hunt, Kindness, Ready

Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.

Desire, Distrust, Instinct, Mean, Respect

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

Good, Hate, Hating, Kindness, Way, Wrong

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Inspirational, Look, Pumping, Showing, Teacher, Teaching

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Genius, Impossible, Talent

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.

Iron, Like, Men, Passion

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Inspirational, Light, Responsible, Talent, Work

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

Common, Common Sense, Measure, Prevision, Sense

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Faith, Science, Society, This Society

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Achieve, And Love, Humility, Men, Truth

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

Difficult, Easily, Genius, Mark, Talent

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also - He above all - is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.

Heart, Lips, Men, Son, Wound, Wrung

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Education, Garden, Knowledge, Learning, Library, Wait

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

Free, Inward, Light, Mean, Power, Self

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

Artist, Great Art, Simplicity, Simplifiers, Thinker

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