Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWe consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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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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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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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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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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I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
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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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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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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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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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