To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHSome men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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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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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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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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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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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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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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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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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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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is 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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