Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHOur second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHTo acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHThe world is the same everywhere.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHNo mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHAll 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 AUERBACHWhen you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHI have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHTo harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHTruly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHIf you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhy has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhen 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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHHe who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHPeople 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 AUERBACHSolitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHBeing alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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