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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

Berthold Auerbach

Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
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
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

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