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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Berthold Auerbach

The vain being is the really solitary being.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Solitary Vain Vanity
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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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Corruption Ends Men
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Fear Justice Strive
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
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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Disaster Feet Mountain
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
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Bird Nature Swamp

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