It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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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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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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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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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Years teach us more than books.
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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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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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