Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHBeing alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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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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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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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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Years teach us more than books.
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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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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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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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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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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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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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