When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHIt is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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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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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Years teach us more than books.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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