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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Berthold Auerbach

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
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
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

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