Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.


Amiel's Journal (ed. 1893)


Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.