Berthold Auerbach Quotes

The vain being is the really solitary being.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Solitary Vain Vanity
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
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
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
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
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
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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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Lying Mind People
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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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Dust Practice Soul
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak

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