When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHDiscontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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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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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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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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Years teach us more than books.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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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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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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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 little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new 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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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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