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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Berthold Auerbach

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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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Corruption Ends Men
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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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Disaster Feet Mountain
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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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Lying Mind People
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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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Eye Long Maturity
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
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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Eye Lightning Looks

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

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