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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

Berthold Auerbach

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Falsehood Purity Truth
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
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
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.
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Bird Nature Swamp
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Harbor Hatred Soul
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
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Hands Hats World
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

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