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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.

Berthold Auerbach

The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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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Corruption Ends Men
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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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Eye Long Maturity
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains

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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