Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement. — Henri Frederic Amiel Discouragement Copy Share Image
Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded. — Henri Frederic Amiel Great men Copy Share Image
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel Charm Copy Share Image
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. — Henri Frederic Amiel Beauty Copy Share Image
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. — Henri Frederic Amiel Acting Copy Share Image
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from… — Henri Frederic Amiel Apology Copy Share Image
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey… — Henri Frederic Amiel Life Copy Share Image
Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
All we need is the truth in our hand. Someone to call a friend. Never fear the darkness. All we need is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Darkness Copy Share Image
The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Character Copy Share Image
The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Alive Copy Share Image
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its… — Henri Frederic Amiel Calm Copy Share Image
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate… — Henri Frederic Amiel Chiefs Copy Share Image
One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. — Henri Frederic Amiel Compulsion Copy Share Image
The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history. — Henri Frederic Amiel History Copy Share Image
