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Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
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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.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
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In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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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 learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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