The vain being is the really solitary being.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHThe vain being is the really solitary being.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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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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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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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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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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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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Years teach us more than books.
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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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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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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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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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