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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
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Bird Nature Swamp

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