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The vain being is the really solitary being.

Berthold Auerbach

Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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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Eye Lightning Looks
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
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
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

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