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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

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
People 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.
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Eye Long Maturity
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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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