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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Berthold Auerbach

The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
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
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
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
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
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
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

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