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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

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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
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
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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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