Years teach us more than books.
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.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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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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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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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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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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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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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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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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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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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.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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