The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.


Amiel's Journal: the Journal intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel (ed. 1907)


The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.