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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
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
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
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
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
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fear Justice Strive
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Art Money Valor

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