Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHBeing alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWith hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhen you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHSome men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhen the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHOf all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhat will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHOur second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHTo harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHAll men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHTruly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHThe vain being is the really solitary being.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWe consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWeak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHHe who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhy has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACH