Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes

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Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel