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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

Berthold Auerbach

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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Men Selfish Vanity
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
People 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.
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Eye Long Maturity
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

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