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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.

Berthold Auerbach

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
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
In 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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Bird Nature Swamp
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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

He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.

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