To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWe hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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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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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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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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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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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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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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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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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Years teach us more than books.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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