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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

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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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 world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World

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

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