He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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- I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
- Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
- To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
- Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
- To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.