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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

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother

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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