Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
More Quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel:
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.Henri Frederic Amiel
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
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri Frederic Amiel
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
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To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
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