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

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
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
If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Dust Practice Soul
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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

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

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