Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHDiscontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHSolitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhat 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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWe hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHNo mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhy has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACHSome men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHAll 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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHThe vain being is the really solitary being.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHHe who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHOur second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHTo acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHPeople 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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHThe world is the same everywhere.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHI have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHIf you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH