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 AUERBACHIn Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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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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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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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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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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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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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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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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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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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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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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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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