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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhy has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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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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Years teach us more than books.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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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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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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The world is the same everywhere.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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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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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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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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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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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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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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