We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHTruly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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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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Years teach us more than books.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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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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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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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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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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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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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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The world is the same everywhere.
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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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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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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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