What did Henri Frederic Amiel mean by: Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. Henri Frederic Amiel Copy
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Change, Optimism, Persistence, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Ennoblement, Love, Sanctification, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Life, Revolt, Submission, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Acceptance, Advice, Desire, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Materialism, Truth, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Desire, Fate, Irony, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Identity, Involuntary, Self-awareness, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Intelligence, Passion, Will, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
