Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHYears teach us more than books.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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The world is the same everywhere.
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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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.
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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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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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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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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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