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The vain being is the really solitary being.

Berthold Auerbach

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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother

The vain being is the really solitary being.

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