306 Quotes by Henri Frédéric Amiel

A belief is not true because it is useful

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

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

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.

Its way of suffering is the witness which a soul bares to itself.

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

So as long as a person is capable of self-renewal, they are a living being.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.