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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.

Berthold Auerbach

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
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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Bird Nature Swamp
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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Dust Practice Soul
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 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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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

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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