Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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People 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.
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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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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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All 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.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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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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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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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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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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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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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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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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