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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Berthold Auerbach

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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
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

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