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

Berthold Auerbach

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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity
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
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Selfish Vanity
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Modern Window
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Artist Littles New Work
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Falsehood Purity Truth
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Devil God Liberty
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Art Money Valor
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Years teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Inspirational Life Wisdom
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Happy Needs Nothing
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Command Work
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Dust Practice Soul
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Emotion Good Habit Mother

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

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