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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHTruly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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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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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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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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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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The world is the same everywhere.
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Years teach us more than books.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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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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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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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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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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