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Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel Journal Intime (1882)

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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.

Journal Intime (1882)

Knowledge, love, power,—there is the complete life.

Journal Intime (1882)

Liberty, equality — bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble becomes necessarily protection or kindness.

Journal Intime (1882)

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.

Journal Intime (1882)

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Journal Intime (1882)

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