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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

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
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
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
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
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing

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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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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