Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhy has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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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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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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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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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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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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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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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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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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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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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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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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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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