Memorable Quotes and quotations from Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel


Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- Analysis kills spontaneity.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- All appears to change when we change.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- ...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel -
- Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.