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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

Berthold Auerbach

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Art Money Valor
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
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
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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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Eye Lightning Looks
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
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fear Justice Strive

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