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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
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
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
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

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

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