Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes & Quotations

Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

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

» There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

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

» Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

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

» Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

» The only substance properly so called is the soul.

» If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

» To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

» Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

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