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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Berthold Auerbach

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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Eye Long Maturity
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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Men Selfish Vanity
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
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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Lying Mind People
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor

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