He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHOur second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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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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What 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.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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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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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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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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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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When 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.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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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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