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

Berthold Auerbach

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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Lying Mind People
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

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

Fear Justice Strive
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Age Men Retains Silver
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

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

Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Bird Nature Swamp
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Emotion Good Habit Mother
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Art Money Valor
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Harbor Hatred Soul
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Alone Belief Firm

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