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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

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
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 vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
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
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
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself

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

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