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

Berthold Auerbach

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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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Corruption Ends Men
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
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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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Disaster Feet Mountain
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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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
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

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

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