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. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)

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.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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