To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
More Quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel:
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.Henri Frederic Amiel
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The only substance properly so called is the soul.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
Henri Frederic Amiel
We only understand that which already within us.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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