An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri-Frédéric AmielDare 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-Frédéric AmielDestiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri-Frédéric AmielStichwörter: embrace jessica-shirvington
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Henri-Frédéric AmielStichwörter: power duty desire
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
Henri-Frédéric AmielStichwörter: sacrifice
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Henri-Frédéric AmielI sogni sono la domenica dei pensieri.
Henri-Frédéric AmielStichwörter: sogni
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri-Frédéric AmielStichwörter: kindness love struggle
Feebleness of will brings about weakness of head, and the abyss, in spite of its horror, comes to fascinate us, as though it were a place of refuge. Terrible danger! For this abyss is within us; this gulf, open like the vast jaws of an infernal serpent bent on devouring us, is in the depth of our own being, and our liberty floats over this void, which is always seeking to swallow it up.
Henri-Frédéric AmielIn these moments of tête-à-tête with the infinite, how different life looks! How all that usually occupies and excites us becomes suddenly puerile, frivolous, and vain. We seem to ourselves mere puppets, marionettes, strutting seriously through a fantastic show, and mistaking gewgaws for things of great price.
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