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 AUERBACHI have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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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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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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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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The world is the same everywhere.
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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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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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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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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Years teach us more than books.
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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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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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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.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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