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.
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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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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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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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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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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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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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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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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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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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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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is 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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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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