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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWith hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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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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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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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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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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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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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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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 consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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