Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHOur second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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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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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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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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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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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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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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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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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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