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

Berthold Auerbach

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 AUERBACH

Men Selfish Vanity
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
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
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
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
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
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

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

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