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Great Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
- Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
- 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…
- 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 great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
- Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.
- What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure…
- What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
- At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from…
- Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
- A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of…
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