Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHThe silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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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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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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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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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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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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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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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Years teach us more than books.
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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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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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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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