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

Berthold Auerbach

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
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
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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Dust Practice Soul
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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 consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak

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