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The world is the same everywhere.

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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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Eye Long Maturity
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
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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Dust Practice Soul
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom

The world is the same everywhere.

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