Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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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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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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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Years teach us more than books.
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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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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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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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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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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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