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

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
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
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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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