Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHPeople look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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All 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.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
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