Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature ... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
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