Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHBeing alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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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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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Years teach us more than books.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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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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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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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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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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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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