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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhen 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 vain being is the really solitary being.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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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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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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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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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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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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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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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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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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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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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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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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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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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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Years teach us more than books.
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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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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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