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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

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
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
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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Falsehood Purity Truth
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Dust Practice Soul
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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

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

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