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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhen you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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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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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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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Years teach us more than books.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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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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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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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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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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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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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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