Tell me what you think you are and I will tell you what you are not.

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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

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To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

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Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

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A thousand things advance, nine hundred and ninety-eight fall back, this is progress.

Henri-Frederic Amiel in Journal Intime (1882), translated by Mary Augusta Ward
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

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