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

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
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
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
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
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

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

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