Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHSolitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHOf all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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 AUERBACHWhy has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACHIt is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHGratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHThe silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWe hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHLiberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHTo harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHHe who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWe consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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 AUERBACHDiscontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWith hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHI have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH