The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHLiberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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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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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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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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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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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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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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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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