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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.

Berthold Auerbach

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
What 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.
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Lying Mind People
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
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

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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