Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHLiberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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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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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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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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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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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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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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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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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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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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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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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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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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