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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

The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
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
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty

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

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