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 AUERBACHJudaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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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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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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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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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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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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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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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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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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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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