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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 little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
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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Eye Lightning Looks
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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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Disaster Feet Mountain
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
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.
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Lying Mind People
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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats 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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
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

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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