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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

Berthold Auerbach

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Character Gladly Others Stains
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Companion Healing Solitude
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Lightning Looks
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Command Work
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Age Men Retains Silver
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Anger Men Person Weak
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Lying Mind People
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Bird Nature Swamp
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Modern Window
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Harbor Hatred Soul
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

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
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Art Money Valor
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Happy Needs Nothing

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