Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhat 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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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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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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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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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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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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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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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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