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

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
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
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity
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
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
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
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude

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

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