Years teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHPeople 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.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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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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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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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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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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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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The world is the same everywhere.
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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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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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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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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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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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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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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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