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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Berthold Auerbach

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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Men Selfish Vanity
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
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
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
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Fear Justice Strive
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
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

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