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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

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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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.
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Hands Hats World
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
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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

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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