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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

Berthold Auerbach

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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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Lying Mind People
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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Disaster Feet Mountain
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work

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