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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.

Berthold Auerbach

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fear Justice Strive
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
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Bird Nature Swamp
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
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
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Dust Practice Soul
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
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
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

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