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

Berthold Auerbach

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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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Eye Lightning Looks
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
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
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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Bird Nature Swamp
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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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Disaster Feet Mountain
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
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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Dust Practice Soul
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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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Corruption Ends Men
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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 harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Fear Justice Strive
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity

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