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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

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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
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
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
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

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

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