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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

Berthold Auerbach

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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.
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Lying Mind People
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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.
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Eye Lightning Looks
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
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

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