The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWe consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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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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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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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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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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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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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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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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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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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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