Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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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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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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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 world is the same everywhere.
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Years teach us more than books.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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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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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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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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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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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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