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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Berthold Auerbach

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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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 hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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 world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother

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