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

Berthold Auerbach

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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Dust Practice Soul
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Lightning Looks
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Years teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Harbor Hatred Soul
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Disaster Feet Mountain
The world is the same everywhere.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Everywhere Work World
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Age Men Retains Silver
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Selfish Vanity
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Artist Littles New Work

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