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Berthold Auerbach

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Fear Justice Strive
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
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
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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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Corruption Ends Men
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
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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Men Selfish Vanity

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