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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

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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 consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World

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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