Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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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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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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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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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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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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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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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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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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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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When 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.
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