black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

Berthold Auerbach

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Devil God Liberty
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Companion Healing Solitude
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Selfish Vanity
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

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

Art Money Valor
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Emotion Good Habit Mother
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Accustomed Bed Easier
The vain being is the really solitary being.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Solitary Vain Vanity
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Falsehood Purity Truth
The world is the same everywhere.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Everywhere Work World
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Command Work
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fall Grief Rain Silent
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Disaster Feet Mountain
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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Berthold Auerbach Quotes